FALL 2016 News for the Allendale Columbia School Community

Beyond the Birches

NURTURING GLOBAL CITIZENS

www.AllendaleColumbia.orgwww.AllendAleColumbiA.org A ALLENDALE From the Alumni Association President COLUMBIA BOARD OF A Letter from Peter Gregory ’03 TRUSTEES I am honored to serve my alma mater as the Schumacher ’55, at the annual luncheon held at the 2016-2017 incoming President of the Allendale Columbia Alumni Country Club of Rochester. Jon has served Allendale Association Board. I would Columbia School in a variety of capacities including: Mary Beth Conway, Chair like to congratulate and a member of the Board of Trustees for three terms, thank Stephen Hill ’03 for an alumnus, an AC parent to Sara ’87 and Alec ’90, Charles E. Symington ’76, his previous service as a philanthropic supporter, and a pro-bono advisor Vice Chair, Treasurer President. to name a few! Please join me in congratulating Jon Robert C. Tait, II ’75, on his award. If you wish to nominate an alumnus/a Secretary I am always proud to be an Allendale Columbia for this award or would like to read more about the Charles F. Bradford ’99 alum, but during the 2016- criteria, please visit allendalecolumbia.org/alumni. Lisa Campbell ’83 2017 year, we all will have Finally, there are numerous ways you can get involved! Diana Clarkson ’99 reason to be especially Join us for an event, serve on the alumni board, C. Kieran Draper proud as the school moves refer families to the admissions offce, make a gift, or Stephen Hill ’03 into year two of implementing the dynamic and volunteer as a class agent. If you are local and can Elisabeth W. Judson ’64 impressive strategic plan. As an alumni board, we too only make one event a year, join us for the annual James McKenna ’94 are focused on the vision for AC to be a thriving, alumni holiday gathering at Pomodoro Grill and Wine Deborah McLean diverse community of learners that engages locally Bar which always has record-setting attendance and Robert J. Moore and internationally to create opportunities to design, is hosted every December. If you are out of town, Tracey Morrell imagine, learn, and make a positive impact. As we keep an eye on our alumni events calendar—we may Mauricio Riveros seek to engage in even more meaningful ways across be visiting your area soon! Please also reach out if the region and the world, the Alumni Association will you are visiting Rochester. There is always an open Bridgette E. Rivers ’81 continue to host signature events and integrate new invitation at AC for lunch and a tour! Stephen Van Arsdale elements into long-standing traditions. Elizabeth Wehle ’90 I am looking forward to continuing AC traditions and Kevin Wilmot Looking back, the June 2016 reunion included fantastic building new ones together as we all beneft from the events for all attendees. The keystone event—the exciting path set by Mick Gee, the faculty, staff, and the Keith Wilson Reunion Cocktail Reception—provided an excellent Board of Trustees. Jill Wynn venue for catching up with former classmates and Best, faculty members. Each year more and more alumni attend Reunion to enjoy reminiscing, reconnecting, laughing, and having fun at a variety of special events. Also in June, as part of Reunion Weekend, the Peter Gregory ’03 alumni board had the distinct honor of presenting President, Allendale Columbia Alumni Association the Distinguished Alumni Award to honoree, Jon L. Welcome New Board Members Jill Wynn is a real estate Stephen Hill is an assistant agent with Nothnagle Realtors professor in the School of and a freelance writer. She is a Management at Nazareth graduate of Daemen College College. A graduate of Hobart and is currently enrolled in College, Stephen participated the MSW program at Roberts in the Tuck School of Business Wesleyan College. She has Bridge Program and also served as the Board of Trustees went on to receive his Ph.D. President for the Chili Public Library and currently in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the serves as a board member at St. Ann’s and Young University of Akron. Since 2009, Stephen has been Women’s College Prep Charter School. She has also an active member of the AC Alumni Association been an advocate for Summer LEAP as a member of Board, frst as a member and most recently as the Advisory Board at AC. Jill and her husband Jeff President from 2014-2016. Stephen ’03 and his wife have two daughters, Jordan ’18 and Jocelyn ’22. Caroline ’06 reside in Brighton.

1 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 About the cover “Kids in the Window” was taken by AC student Evelyn Van Arsdale ’20 on From the Head of School her research trip to Madagascar in June. A Letter from Mick Gee

Dear AC Community: in this issue Letter from Alumni Association We celebrated our 125-year President: Peter Gregory ’03 legacy with remarkable community 1 engagement last year. The Letter from Head of School: numbers tell one great story— 2 Mick Gee enrollment was up again, we FEATURE: DEVELOPING had over 450 people attend our 3 GLOBAL EMPATHY record-setting Make Your Mark The life-changing nature of global engagement Gala, we visited with dedicated alumni in over 10 cities worldwide, FEATURE: GLOBAL and we raised over $1M to 7 ENGAGEMENT AC offers new Global continue our commitment to Engagement Scholar Diploma fnancial aid, scholarships, global engagement, new course development, a nimble strategic plan, Summer LEAP: Inspiring Students, Connecting and more—but, I continue to say that the energy around the 9 Communities We have partnered with over 50 organizations Alumna Profle: Nancy Northup ’77 over the past few years and our AC students 11 On the power of listening to yourself and AC Summer LEAP students are Class of 2016 collaborating, creating, designing, and making a 13 positive impact in our region and the world. 15 Make Your Mark Gala teaching and learning at AC today is palpable, and the impact Alumni News: Reunion, AC is making regionally is indisputably even more remarkable Class Notes, In Memoriam than any statistic. We have partnered with over 50 organizations 19 over the past few years and our AC students and our Summer Alumni Profle: LEAP students are collaborating, creating, designing, and making a 26 David Crofton ’88 positive impact in our region and the world. Within and beyond Annual Report of the classroom, AC students and teachers are learning with passion 27 Philanthropy at AC and purpose as they tackle societal challenges facing all of us. MAGAZINE STAFF In year two of our strategic plan, the faculty and staff are as Executive Editors: Courtney Dixon and inspired as I have ever seen them—they are designing new Karyn Vella courses, re-aligning curricula across multiple disciplines, thinking Editors: Emily Gillette, Katherine Lapa, broadly and innovatively, collaborating to expand May Term, some John Reese are teaching year-round with Summer LEAP, and others are taking Design: Blender Inc. students on life-changing global immersion trips. It’s worth coming Contributing Photographers: to see AC in action today. Join us for a showing of Most Likely Amy Oliveri, Sarah Potter, Tony to Succeed on campus later this year with alums, past parents, Tepedino, Karyn Vella, Pete Wayner, current parents, and friends. Get together with fellow alums in Matt Wittmeyer, AC Students your city or return for your reunion next spring. When you are in Contributing Writers: the Rochester area, stop in and say hello, take a tour of campus, Conor Brennan-Burke ’11 and stay for lunch with faculty and students. I look forward to Courtney Dixon Emily Gillette connecting with you. Katherine Lapa Malcolm Taylor ’55 Karyn Vella Pete Wayner To request additional copies of Beyond the Birches, please email Mick Gee [email protected] Head of School

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 2 “Global empathy means that you are able to put yourself in any situation anywhere in the world and contribute to that environment, and to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes. . .as opposed to going to another country and imposing your values or your beliefs. I absolutely saw our AC students demonstrate their global empathy when we were in Senegal. I watched them live and connect with their host brothers and sisters, happily immersed in their culture. ” —Ariane Baer-Harper, Director of AC Center for Global Engagement

3 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 FEATURE STORY

The life-changing nature of global engagement.

Creating opportunities for students to engage regionally and and two faculty members embarked on a science research trip globally so they can make a positive impact, even before they to Madagascar in collaboration with the Seneca Park Zoo, the graduate from Middle School or Upper School, is among Head of Smithsonian Institute, and National Geographic. During the same School, Mick Gee’s highest priorities. If you have heard him speak time period, a group of ten AC French students traveled to Senegal recently, you have probably heard him emphasize the importance for a language immersion and service trip to a partner school of developing global empathy, not just by talking about it in a and with Tostan, a world-renowned Human Rights Organization classroom, but by immersing oneself in another culture to serve dedicated to empowerment for women in West Africa. others, research, and connect with While in Madagascar, students communities around the world. participated in the One Cubic “When I came to AC, we had Foot project in collaboration with international students on campus David Liittschwager, a nationally and that was appealing to me, but recognized photographer known I wanted to create a robust global in the Rochester area for his work engagement program that offered measuring biodiversity in the ways for AC students to immerse Genesee River. Students worked with themselves in different cultures and Liittschwager and his partners from countries, on various continents National Geographic to photograph through research, service, language and obtain genetic samples from the immersion—or all three.” In just very diverse population of organisms under four years, this vision has who inhabit the island country. In started to become a reality. Upper addition, students worked with Dr. School students have traveled to Patricia Wright on what has the Costa Rica; Middle School students potential to be ground-breaking have traveled to Nicaragua for a fossil research that would support new language service trip; Upper the existence of humans on the School students have traveled to island, thousands of years earlier Senegal for a new French cultural than currently believed. Beyond their immersion trip; and Middle and work with local school children and Upper School students have traveled to Madagascar for a Malagasy scientists, AC students partnered with INTERVOL, a research and cultural immersion trip. Rochester-based medical organization. Through INTERVOL, they For Mick Gee and the faculty at Allendale Columbia, the next received and purchased medical supplies that were then donated step is the launch of the AC Center for Global Engagement. It is to a clinic in Madagascar. The students also donated 175 dresses a natural extension of what the school has been doing well and it and dolls to students in remote villages through a partnership will allow AC to expand its reach, opportunities, and our impact. with the New York State chapter of Dress a Girl Around the World. Ariane Baer-Harper, recently appointed as the frst coordinator of They also brought books, movies, clothing, and refurbished iPads the center, has both the vision and the experience to create the to schools in Madagascar. According to Franck, a native who frst hub of its kind for nursery-grade 12 global engagement in works with colleges and universities worldwide, “AC students our region, if not our country. were always willing to do everything. In this way they were not The AC Center for Global Engagement is inspired by the work like other groups of students who have come to the research of talented faculty members and dedicated administrative center many times before. When I offered them an opportunity leaders. Student interest in experiencing other cultures and the to hike to a village, more than an hour away, they wanted to go! new Global Engagement Diploma is soaring. This past spring, When they saw the village, I could see them get excited, and I during May Term 2016, 15 Middle and Upper School students was surprised how engaged they were. They were amazing; and they were so curious.”

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 4 DEVELOPING GLOBAL EMPATHY STUDENT REFLECTIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES AND CULTURES

It was there that our students shared dresses, dolls, hats, and laptops with a village of families who gratefully received them. While Franck has been in the U.S. to visit universities, AC is the only independent school he visited and he said, “I compare everything to our country, but even as we try to have new things in Madagascar, it’s impossible to have all the technology and the art you have here. I am so glad AC came to our school and shared what you have.” While one group of AC students was on the east coast of Africa, our French students were exploring life on the west coast of Africa in Senegal. They attended a Senegalese school that offers a bilingual International Baccalaureate program and lived a life completely immersed in Senegalese culture with their host families. After school each day, there was time for exploration. Students visited the historical Gorée Island, the Slave House that many U.S. presidents have visited when traveling through West Africa, and one of only two pink lakes in the world. In addition to connecting to “another family” around the world, students also had the unique opportunity to work

“Conservation is not a one-time thing. It’s something you spend your entire life working on; maybe you get about a foot into this conservation effort and you spend 30 years on it, but that foot makes all the difference between losing an entire rainforest and conserving what we have left.” — Luke Nicosia ’17

5 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 STUDENT REFLECTIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES AND CULTURES

“Back on campus, at the Centre ValBio facility, Dr. Wright gave us the task of sorting some classifed bones in her fossil collection. Angele, the house paleontologist, helped us sort the 9,000 year old fossils. The fossils had been dated in Helsinki and were discovered by Dr. Wright and a few colleagues at a “Christmas River” site in Madagascar. The fossils were split into four groupings based on species. We sorted Aepyornis (Elephant bird), crocodile, turtle, and pygmy hippo bones. Two students from Duke University helped us go through the boxes and bags of hundreds of bones. It felt weird handling the extremely old fossils. It was also incredibly hard to categorize them. Over time, our knowledge of hippo anatomy improved. While sorting the fossils we looked for different clues. For instance, Aepyornis bones have a lot of air pockets. A few bones connected together like puzzle pieces. The vertebrae and jawbones with teeth were the coolest to analyze.”

—blog by Kate Bjorklund ’16 with the globally renowned human rights organization, to seeing her host-sister here in the U.S. when the Senegalese Tostan, at their training center. After a full day of training, students visited Allendale Columbia in October of this year. the students then traveled to a local village where Tostan As the students refect on their experiences, it is easy to feel works to see the immediate impact of their efforts to the inspiration and the life-changing nature of their global empower women. For Danielle Chuprun ’17, one of engagement. For Evelyn Van Arsdale ’20, the trip to Madagascar the frst candidates for the Global Engagement Scholar sparked a deeper appreciation on so many levels. “I’m more Diploma, the most exciting part of the trip was spending appreciative of this country and what we have ... and in a typical the afternoons on outings with the entire class: “I loved classroom you learn information, but you don’t have anywhere spending time with all of the kids in our class at West to use it right away. Here at AC and on this trip, I got information African College of the Atlantic, and I made a lot of new and the opportunity to use it is right there in front of me.” friends from taking those trips with them and bonding. The best learning experience was being in the village in For more refections from their trip, the full blog by Thies. We got to watch the full impact of Tostan and it was Kate Bjorklund ’16 and the traveling photo exhibit, visit incredible seeing the level of infuence the organization allendalecolumbia.org/globalengagement. was making.” Danielle also shared she was looking forward

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 6 FOCUS ON GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT As the recently appointed coordinator of AC’s Center for Global Engagement, Ariane Baer- Harper is no stranger to the world beyond the classroom. She discovered her passion for teaching languages while working at a school in AC offers new Global Senegal and has taught languages at every grade level, nursery through college. Engagement Scholar Diploma As an administrator in a bilingual total-immersion school, Ariane The newly launched AC Center for completing those basic requirements, had the opportunity to develop Global Engagement offers students op- candidates for this diploma must also curriculum tailored to how her portunities to be immersed in different demonstrate global competencies in the students learned and develop cultures, study multicultural perspectives, areas of communication, connection, ex- partnerships in different parts of strengthen their global empathy, and de- ploration, and action by choosing to do the world so her students could velop a sense of responsibility to them- some or all of the following: collaborate connect with cultures outside of their own—real- selves and others as they “experience with global partners, serve on global world learning opportunities she now brings to the world.” Students who wish to pur- committees, travel on one or more in- Allendale Columbia. sue more in-depth global engagement ternational trips, volunteer with a glob- Refecting on her personal experience, Ariane studies now have the ability to earn a ally recognized organization, serve as a remembers when she decided to become a Global Engagement Scholar Diploma global ambassador, mentor, or host, and teacher and says, “I realized the most growth I in addition to their AC diploma. Every return to campus to share one’s experi- have ever experienced was outside of my comfort Global Engagement Scholar Diploma ences with the AC community. As AC zone, living among other cultures, and looking at candidate will be required to perform prepares the next generation of leaders things from different perspectives.” And Ariane more than 40 hours of service, pres- and problem solvers, the global diploma believes this is what education is about: growth, ent a portfolio to the committee, and program seeks to inspire and recognize opportunities, and looking at things through pass required classes including at least AC students who have a passion for a broader lens. She continues on to say, “True three years of a world language. While making a global impact. growth, creation, and innovation actually occurs because it doesn’t pigeonhole you into one way of doing things. Look at the United Nations for example. If you’re sitting around a table with people from all over the world, and you each have a different perspective, the conversation is much more enriching, and the creation that is going to occur from that collaboration and conversation literally brings more to the table.” After joining AC in 2015, Ariane chaperoned a service trip to Costa Rica and also developed a partnership with a school in Senegal where, in the spring of 2016, she took 14 students to experience cultural immersion. Under her leadership, AC launched its frst-ever global diploma program this September; had 10 Senegalese students on campus for a one-week immersion experience; and will be offering service trips to Nicaragua, India, and China in the next two years. In addition, Ariane is planning on expanding our international summer camp offerings. Providing students with opportunities to learn about the world allows them to develop and strengthen essential skills such as empathy, com- Mission Statement of the munication, risk taking, and team work; skills Center for Global Engagement that will beneft them far beyond their time at The Center for Global Engagement at Allendale Columbia is committed to AC. “When we give a child the opportunity to growing and fostering partnerships around the world, exposing students to global become an empathetic learner, who is able to opportunities and multicultural perspectives in preparation for college and the understand there’s more than one perspective, global workforce, and creating a culture of global empathy and global responsibility, we’re ultimately sending them into the real world allowing students to make a positive and lasting impact on the world they will where one of their best assets is actually going to inherit. be—‘can I put myself in another’s shoes and see things from their perspective?” 7 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 What we’ve accomplished TOGETHER Award-Winning Research A team of AC 4th-graders, known as the Monarch Savers, were the international DuPont Challenge Grand Prize Winners for their work on the Project Challenge: Protecting Our Ecosystems. They competed against more than 9,000 4th-grade teams in the U.S. and Canada. According to the judges, the Monarch Savers were chosen milkweed in an effort to restore the food were recognized for their commitment because they failed more times than they source that is most critical to the survival to research-based science, teamwork, succeeded, trying multiple ways to grow of Monarch butterfies. These AC students and perseverance. Responsibility to Self and Others AC students in all Divisions engage in community service around the region and the world. At the start of May Term, all Upper School students spent the day volunteering through- out our local community. Students helped the staff at the Foodlink warehouse, participat- ed in the PBJ Brown Bag Lunch Program at Open Door Mission, tutored 3rd-graders at School 17, and worked with the grounds team at Ganondagan. A few more recent initiatives include rebuilding schools in Costa Rica, building homes in Nica- ragua, leading food drives, collecting over 2,800 pounds of used electronics to recycle on Earth From Grade 4 Day, raising over $10,000 for the American Heart Association, and collecting over 7,000 pennies for Because International to help impoverished chil- to CEO dren in prevention of the Zika virus. Another group of AC 4th-graders in the DuPont Challenge went straight to Vortex Bladeless co-CEO David Suriol Virtual Tour of Allendale Columbia School and AC to secure a bladeless wind turbine for International Houses Allendale Columbia School. As a result For her Senior Study Project last May, Yuming Ma ’16 created a 360° virtual tour of the of the students’ presentation to Vor- Allendale Columbia campus, Tait International House for Boys, and the Girls’ International tex Bladeless, the company plans to House. She took all of the photography, edited the photos, and then converted them into donate a bladeless wind turbine to the a detailed virtual tour that can now be found on the AC website! Yuming was able to school; it will be the frst prototype of capture various campus settings and bring them to life using specialized software, her own its kind in the United States. photography, and editing skills. Visit allendalecolumbia.org/virtualtour.

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 8 Dr. Algernon Kelley leads a group of frst and second grade Summer LEAP students in a S.T.E.M. experiment. Summer LEAP Inspiring Students, Connecting Communities.

Advisory Board Beyond the extraordinary work in the classrooms and the energy 2016-2017: across campus, the work of the Summer LEAP Advisory Board has been phenomenal. Staying true to the advisory board’s commitment to Tracey Morrell, Chair engage and inspire others to learn more about and support Summer Jori Cincotta LEAP, the board helped to welcome over 20 visitors to the program Amy DeBiase this year including foundations, friends, donors, current parents, current Peter Gregory ’03 students, former parents, alumni, grandparents, city offcials, and more. Ebets Judson ’64 We also launched new partnerships with Sarah Plasky of Aquavation Alfred Vitale and Lindsay Cray of The Earthworks Institute. Students were given Jill Wynn the opportunity to be designers and problem solvers in the context of learning about entrepreneurship and had the opportunity to learn essential survival skills on AC’s nature trail. If you are passionate about improving educational options for our inner city youth, come learn more about Summer LEAP or get involved by attending our Summer LEAP Breakfast at AC on February 8th, 2017, visiting Summer LEAP while it is in session in July 2017, or donating directly to Summer LEAP to help us continue our life-changing work. Contact Karyn Vella at [email protected] for more information. “I am an artist” by Jose

All Summer LEAP students designed their own Community leaders, representatives from Earthworks, Allendale Columbia personalized water bottles with the help of students and leaders and children from the Rochester City School District entrepreneur Sarah Plasky of Aquavation and LEAP gathered to celebrate the expansion of the Earthworks program. supporter Maggie Symington.

9 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 First Day of School We opened the 2016-2017 school year with seniors greeting students at the entrance of campus, 400 pinwheels lining the driveway, excited students running to the front door, and countless smiles!

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 10 ALUMNA PROFILE: NANCY NORTHUP ’77 ON THE POWER OF LISTENING TO YOURSELF

Q: Can you tell us what led you to where you are today? Q: Is there a teacher from that time who had an impact Nancy: Throughout my life I’ve always been very concerned on you? with social justice and human rights and women’s equality. Nancy: In high school, one of my most important teachers I became a lawyer to be able to was Carolyn Luckie. I think I took every possible English work on making sure that our elective I could with Mrs. Luckie. laws and policies refect an ability She was stringent, demanding, for people to live with equality and smart, and really cared about and dignity and human rights. us learning to write and to think. That led me to eventually come For someone who became an to be the CEO of the Center attorney and majored in history for Reproductive Rights. Along in college, writing and critical the way I was a prosecutor in thinking were hugely important. the U.S. Attorney’s Offce (that’s She was tough and a hard grader. the Federal Prosecutor’s offce I was so motivated to work and in New York). I also worked on do well in her classes. voting rights and democracy issues Q: You have such a long list of and have spent my volunteer time accomplishments, from policy to working on issues of social justice education to legal work; what and women’s rights. kind of impact has that had over your career? Q: How did your passion for women’s rights start? Nancy: I think I’m particularly proud of the role that the Nancy: I think in many ways Center for Reproductive Rights my early formative years at has played on the global stage the Columbia School for Girls, in ensuring that women’s rights when we were on Goodman and access to reproductive health Street downtown, had a lot to are understood as fundamental do with becoming an advocate human rights. We have been a for women’s empowerment. At very important legal voice in Columbia, I was in class with just making the statement about girls. All of my teachers, with the women’s rights, or human rights, translate into legally exception of Mr. Hollenbach, who was the choral director, enforceable rights. were women. The school, of course, was led by Joan Twaddle, One of the issues in our global work is the issue of child the headmistress, and all the administration, virtually all the marriage in South Asia and in Sub-Saharan Africa and teachers, even in the high school, were women. the very ability to survive pregnancy itself. There are vast It was an academically challenging and rigorous environment, differences globally about your risk of death associated with and also instilled in us a very strong sense of values, of giving pregnancy. When you live in a country with good maternal back to society, and living ethical and productive lives. I felt care, that risk is quite low, and when you live in countries that those, particularly the years I spent at Columbia in that do not value women, do not prioritize obstetrics care, elementary school, were very important in me believing that women needlessly die. In some countries there is as high women had an important role to play in society and could as a one in ten chance of death in a lifetime for women in be leaders. association with being pregnant. Being able to translate that

11 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 into legally enforceable rights to Q: Any advice for current students survive pregnancy and that being at Allendale Columbia? understood as a human right is Nancy: My advice would be to just among the accomplishments that follow your passions wherever they I’m very proud of for the Center lead. Do what you’re interested for Reproductive Rights and our in and somehow it will all come work. together. One of the things that Q: With so much change since people fnd funniest about my your days at Allendale Columbia high school years is that I was a School, what do you wish you cheerleader. You know, that’s still my knew then that you know now? job. You never have any idea how Nancy: I guess what I wish I had being a cheerleader in high school known is that the answers for how can lead you to an important job you live your life are in yourself; function as a CEO of a global you have to listen to yourself. You organization 40 years later. Many have to listen to what your own of my happy memories of AC have passions are. You have to listen to to do with being at the sidelines of your own moral compass. Those basketball games. So, just fgure it answers don’t lie somewhere out, explore, and hopefully it will all else. You can study, you can talk come together. to people, you can refect, you Q: What’s next for you? can read, but at the end of the Nancy: Of course, my 40th reunion. day, your life’s project is to listen I hope to be back in Rochester to to yourself, to trust yourself, and celebrate it next year! hopefully to make the world a better place, but you have the answers within yourself. There’s Nancy Northup ’77 is a passionate not somebody else outside who human rights leader and educator has the answers, nor someone who has been the President and else outside whose approval CEO of the Center for Reproductive you need to live your own life. Rights since 2003 where she has led game-changing litigation work before “You have to the U.S. Supreme Court and around listen to what the world to transform how reproduc- tive rights are understood by courts, your own governments, and human rights passions are. bodies. She has taught at NYU Law You have to School and Columbia Law School and listen to your appears frequently in leading media own moral and press. Following her graduation compass. from Allendale Columbia School in 1977, she went on to graduate from Those Brown University and Columbia Law answers School, where she was a Kent Scholar don’t lie and Managing Editor of the Colum- somewhere bia Law Review. else.”

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 12 Please join us in congratulating the Class of 2016 on their graduation, their future plans, and over $4.2 million in merit scholarships.

Hannah Michele Amado Caleb Joshua du Plessis Guy Marino IV Salve Regina University Roberts Wesleyan College Case Western Reserve University Catherine Alexander Bartlett Gavin Joseph Flood Noah Daniel Meyers The George Washington University Hobart and William Smith Colleges University of Rochester Samantha Jade Bilinski Benjamin Frenett Gabrielle Marie Monti Hobart and William Smith Colleges Rochester Institute of Technology Nazareth College Kathryn Louise Bjorklund Jiaxuan “Grace” Guo Charles Mostyn Patterson Skidmore College University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Rochester Olivia June Bono Addison James Irwin Anne Yates Pinkney Cornell University Monroe Community College Dartmouth College James David Borg Brimlow Lorraine Elizabeth King Alena Olive Ragan Rochester Institute of Technology Northeastern University St. Lawrence University Alyssa Ann Broberg Soo Min Lee Samantha Rose Sacks Seattle Pacifc University Will attend University in Korea, Rochester Institute of Technology Alexander Carioty Spring 2017 Fateemah Abiba Patterson Saleem Hobart and William Smith Colleges Tianyu “Michael” Liu Rochester Institute of Technology Molly Coleman University of Wisconsin, Madison Conner Kenneth Shumway Gap Year Mukuundo Hamadi Luhiso St. Lawrence University Rebecca Marie DeCarlo Wellesley College Hongyi “Michael” Xu Mercyhurst University Chenge “Sabrina” Ma The George Washington University Mackenzie Margaret DeCory New York University Xinyuan “Tom” Yi Saint Joseph’s University Yuming Ma University of Rochester Camille Tiara Dixon University of Wisconsin, Madison Jianhong “Jayden” Yu North Carolina A&T University Allyssa Linn Marino New York University Shear Ego International School Wenbai “Vito” Zhang University of California, Davis 13 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Presentation of the Senior Gift Presentation of the Senior Gift by Alyssa Ann Broberg, AC UPPER SCHOOL HONORS Lorraine Elizabeth King, and Gavin Joseph Flood CONVOCATION AWARD RECIPIENTS “On behalf of the senior Class of 2016, we are here to present the senior gift,” said Alyssa to Gordon Smith Award Dartmouth College Book Award begin the presentation. Catherine Alexander Bartlett and Cecilia Esterman Benjamin Frenett “The Class of 2016 is full of people who go out Williams College Book Prize and do things—which is why we are thrilled to The Robert Moore Award Lucien Nicosia give a truly interactive gift,” continued Laurie as Alyssa Ann Broberg Williams College Cup she told the audience that the seniors would like Tucker Gosnell ’77 Prize in English Xinyuan “Tom” Yi to present AC with a new basketball hoop for Olivia June Bono Columbia School Community Service the Lower School playground area. Ménendès-La Flèche French Award Award Lorraine Elizabeth King Gavin concluded by saying, “While a new Alena Olive Ragan basketball hoop will improve the aesthetics of Outstanding Latin Student Award Ray Hickok, Jr. Award that area of our campus, the lasting impact it will Lucien Nicosia Gavin Joseph Flood have on our school and future Lower Schoolers Elizabeth Coffn Bynum ’78 Award Athletic Association Award refects our connection to this community… Khang Tran Kathryn Louise Bjorklund This is a true example of how far this community Pablo Neruda Award Gannett Cup extends, and we hope this gift will be a lasting Guy Marino IV Alena Olive Ragan memory of our class’s dedication to this school.” Churchill-Yager Mathematics Award Headmaster’s Prize in Memory of Peter Jiaxuan “Grace” Guo Schwartz by the Class of ’54 Lorraine Elizabeth King Celebrating Lisa Barnes Class of 1978 Science Prize Graduation Speaker and Carl L. Stevenson Noah Daniel Meyers John Harrison Alumni Award Alyssa Ann Broberg Award Recipient Bausch & Lomb Science Prize Lisa Barnes has been devoted to Allendale Mason Grimes Columbia School’s Music Department for over Catherine Nevius Prize MIDDLE SCHOOL 29 years. Not only has she helped to shape our Catherine Alexander Bartlett music and performing arts programs and the RECOGNITION lives of students who have worked with her, but The Edwin “Ted” Atwood Prize in History CEREMONY Anne Yates Pinkney she has also been committed to student-centered Grade 6 Writing Contest teaching and community engagement in every Kevin Stein Class of 1982 Art Prize Madeleine “Mary” Cotter Caleb Joshua du Plessis Division. Additionally, she has selfessly given Grade 7 Writing Contest back to the school in countless ways during the Bob Stata Instrumental Music Award Grace Rundberg school year and through her well-loved summer Noah Daniel Meyers Grade 8 Writing Contest programs. Below are excerpts from the speech Vocal Music Award Evelyn Van Arsdale she delivered at this year’s graduation ceremony, Gavin Joseph Flood where she was also presented with the Carl L. Helen Monroe Award Dramatic Arts Award Cadence Burke Stevenson Award. Join us in wishing her well in Conner Kenneth Shumway her future endeavors! Nicholas Milella Award Jeff Huff ’84 Memorial Award Brynn Peters Rotsirohawi Galban Cygnet Award “Err in the direction of kindness. Refect light Sherman Farnham, Jr. ’62 & Anne Morris Danielle Monti back to others, even when you yourself are Farnham ’64 Community Service Award struggling… I believe all we have is now, and our Adelaide Flood Chris Hickok Award Roxana “Roxy” Reisch only purpose is to ease the pain of others and Della E. Simpson Memorial Award to keep our awareness of our precious human Juliana Bruno Middle School Merit Award Elizabeth “Liza” Cotter spirit. Some people give you light; others try to University of Rochester Frederick take yours away. Be the one who spreads light Douglass and Susan B. Anthony Award to others… Be mindful of your interactions with Sof Wolfanger-Vitale others. Choose civility and manners. Maintain Rensselaer Medal these qualities in a world that seems to value Nathan Morse them less. You will stand out.” Bowdoin College Book Award “Never underestimate your ability to make Phelan Conheady a difference, especially when performing the Brown University Book Award same tasks every day. You can never be fully Erykah Yasmine Kangbeya aware of how another person perceives you and your actions, so err on the side of restraint and forgiveness.”

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 14 Make Your Mark Gala May 20th, 2016, Oak Hill Country Club

Over 450 guests attended Allendale Columbia’s frst-ever Make Your Mark Gala. The event, held at Oak Hill Country Club, raised over $265,000 for AC!

Liana Kirvan, Tamera Wilmot, P.J. Wilmot ’89, Lars Kirvan Andy Ragan, Erica Ragan, Gregory North, Paul Campbell, Annie McQuilken, Brian Rodwin ’83, Lisa Campbell ’83, and Ellen Coyne.

Steve and Claire Dubnick

Robert Maggs, Martha Staniford ’64, Deborah Maggs, and Matthew Myers

15 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Gregory Previte, Colby Previte, and Shannon Baudo Jeff Morrell, Eric Rorapaugh, and Kristin Rorapaugh

Event Chairs Mark Siwiec and Duffy Palmer, Head of School Mick Gee, Honorary Chairs Ebets ’64 and Tom Judson ’63

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 16 AC NOW Alumni Connections In celebration of Allendale Columbia’s 125th year we hosted more events from coast to coast than ever! Thank you to all the alumni and friends who gathered to reconnect at alumni events in Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Rochester, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. To view a full gallery of photos please visit allendalecolumbia.org/alumni.

Boston

Charlotte Chicago

Rochester Holiday Party

17 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 San Francisco

Washington

New York City

Philadelphia Upcoming Events December 22nd: Holiday Party at Pomodoro Grill + Wine Bar, Rochester, NY April 2017: Alumni Gathering in Washington, D.C. June 16th-17th, 2017: Reunion Weekend View the full list of upcoming events online: allendalecolumbia.org/alumni-events

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 18 REUNION 2016 Reunion 2016 was a wonderful affair as we welcomed back many generations of Allendale Columbia graduates. Please view photos from the entire weekend online: allendalecolumbia.org/2016reunionphotos

SAVE THE DATE REUNION 2017 June 16th and 17th, 2017

19 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 ALUMNI NOTES: ELIZABETH “BETTY” (PRATT) STEWART ’46 2016 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD: gathered with friends and other JON SCHUMACHER ’55 Columbia School alums this summer to celebrate their 70th Jon Schumacher ’55 was presented with the 2016 Distinguished Alumni year graduation anniversary. Award in June 2016 at the Country Club of Rochester, surrounded by family, AC alumni, community members and loyal friends. Awarded ELIZABETH (SEYMOUR) annually, the Distinguished Alumni Award honors alumni for outstanding BYNUM ’50 Sis and Mary achievements and contributions to society after graduating. Kay Kidd ’50 attended the reunion cocktail party at AC in While at Allendale, Jon was President of the Student Council, and June and ran into several friends recipient of both the alumni and scholarship cups. His formal education from other classes including continued at Princeton, where he matriculated in 1959 and then moved Toddy Hunter ’58. on to the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School, located in Athens, Georgia. Following Mr. Schumacher’s graduation from The Law School at the RENNIE MCQUILKIN ’54 has University of Virginia in 1964, he joined Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Dey just been named Poet Laureate in Rochester and was admitted to the NY bar later that year. of Connecticut and has for some In 1972, Jon was named Partner, then Managing Partner of the frm in 1988. After forty years in the Trusts years been the publisher of Antrim and Estates and Charitable Taxation felds, he retired in 2005. His half-day time since then has been entirely House Books. devoted to charitable boards and pro bono legal projects for nonproft organizations of all sizes. With this RENEE PRICE ’71 is looking work, Jon and his family are incredibly philanthropic in the Rochester community and he has been involved forward to her campaign for re- in a number of organizational boards, including our very own board. Jon served as chair of the Board of election to the Board of County Trustees from 1982-1984. Jon is known for his wit, perseverance, and intellect. He is also well-respected for his Commissioners, in Orange County, unwavering commitment to three terms on the Board of Trustees. NC. She truly misses her classmates In addition to his wife Kathy, Jon has shared the legacy of AC with his two children; Mrs. Sara Wolff ’87 and H. and the wonderful times she had at Alexander Schumacher ’90. Columbia School. We are incredibly privileged to recognize Jon and thank him for all of his years of service to Allendale DEBORAH (COOK) ROUTT Columbia and the Rochester community. ’73 traveled to Steamboat, Colorado for one month, in January 2016 “let it snow!” :) She is just completing a middle- (where one of her favorite persons, Whitney won last fall’s grade novel entitled, Armando and teachers was AC alum Lindsay election to represent the 160th the Amazing Animal Race. Visitors Brown). District in the Pennsylvania to Chiang Mai are welcome! diana. Legislature. [email protected] STEPHEN BOHRER ’82 is relocating to Boston to begin AMY (LIGHTHOLDER) JANE “RANDIE” (JACKSON) a new position as a Network TABERSKI ’84 attended the CHIAVELLI ’75 has resided in Administrator at Emerson February performance of “Goin the Boston area since 1985. Her College. Buggy,” the very frst Lower School daughter, Jane, is an accomplished musical that was performed 32 equestrian rider and attends SEBNEM (KARASU) CATTANACH ’82 now lives in years ago. Amy performed the role Tim and Diana Schaffter ’75 Washington and Lee University Chicago and works in the area of of “Lana Ladybug” when she was a in Virginia. Lower School student. She met the DIANA (ROYAL) food safety as the Director of the VICKY (CURTIS) JENKINS 2016 Lana Ladybug! SCHAFFTER ’75 will retire in international giant organization, ’76 has retired from 32 years December 2016 to Chiang Mai, TUV. of teaching and coaching at Thailand, after having worked in Northfeld Mount Hermon LINDSAY BROWN ’82, with international schools and lived School in Gill, MA. She lives with his wife Louise, moved from for the past 34 years with her her husband Peter, a collection of St. Andrews School where he husband, Tim, in Thailand, Cambodia, animals, and an impressive array taught history and crew for 30 Vietnam, Romania, India, Kyrgyzstan, of gardens on their farm in the years. Looking for a change of Laos, and most recently in North Connecticut River valley. place, Lindsay is now in New Korea for two years. Tim is retiring Hampshire and will teach history CAROLYN (DOUGHERTY) from 22 years of working with and crew at Dublin School. Randy Northrup, UNICEF. Diana and Tim will support HINES ’76 is loving her work WHITNEY Lilah Costanzo ’23, community development work with at Aspen Country Day School. (SCHUMACHER) Amy Taberski ’84. the Baha’i community in Northern She has daughters on both coasts HOFFMAN ’83 In addition to Thailand and Diana will also now; one in a PhD program in being part of Hoffman Digital continue writing children’s books. economics at UC Davis and another graduating this May from Media and running a podcast on St. Andrew’s School in Delaware working with learning disabled

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 20 a son in the wake of her own part-time for a neighbor’s business, mother’s mental illness and suicide. Chris is busy buying vehicles along In the next year she’ll be revising the East Coast for a major Ford the memoir and seeking an agent dealership in Dillsburg, PA. and a publisher. She and her family visited her parents in Rochester CIELENE (GLAVIN) this past July and enjoyed getting to ALEKSEJUS ’93 recently know the Eastman School of Music, took a new position running the the Strong Museum of Play, and the Training Department for Dex local microbrew scene. Media Headquartered in Dallas, TX. They help with advertising/ Hugh Flynn ’87 with his sister Kitty Flynn ’82 having lunch in June HOLLY VALENTINE ’90 was marketing including Websites, Search in Boston, MA with Elizabeth Delles Flanagan ’87 and her brother, hired at the Rochester Broadway Engine Marketing, Search Engine Steve Bohrer ’82 Theatre League following the Optimization and Social Media. retirement of 17-year director, Cielene and her husband Don are ALEX GULDBECK ’87 to the Honorable Gail A. Donofrio, Bob Sagan. Holly will serve as based in Chattanooga, TN enjoying recently packed up his possessions frst working in Monroe County a co-director of education and lots of tennis, golf and sunny and computer and web design skills Family Court and the last three community engagement to direct southern weather. Cielene is looking and moved to Miami, FL. He now years in New York State Supreme new initiatives for RBTL. Their forward to the 2017 Reunion! goal is to ensure the viability and lives not too far from his sister, Court. CHERYL FARNEY ’96 started Eleanor ’91. success of arts education programs while advancing opportunities for graduate work at Loyola University of Chicago in Women’s Studies and PAM (BLOCK) BRIER ’87 the community to experience. Gender Study. She will receive her and her husband Steven moved Holly was also recently awarded a master’s degree next year. to Denver from Maryland this Golden Apple Award from News summer. Her daughter Tali will start 8 WROC for her work in bringing ADAM MARSHALL ’97 has college in the fall and her other theatre to the classroom. been working for the last 12 years daughter Zoe completes her last as a civil engineer in Tampa, FL. He semester of college in December. AARON SCHNITTMAN has two children, Elizabeth (5) and Pam’s step-children, Jackson and ’92 lives outside of Philly on the Parker (2) with his wife Erin. Stacey Romeo ’87 Abby, are 11 and 13. Happy to campus of a boys’ boarding school, with his three children and wife ANDREW WILKINSON ’97 be starting a new adventure in In June 2016, Andrew received the beautiful Colorado! DONNA (HUFF) (Kate Crossed Schnittman- SPEAKES ’88 was recently Mercy ’94) who is the executive Willie Lightfoot Youth Advocate PAMELA DERITIS ’87 is recognized by the Fairfax County director of a not-for-proft charity of the Year Award given by the growing her YouTube channel and Fire and Rescue Department as they founded in 2013. This is Monroe County Legislature for his has a couple of shows currently the Civilian Employee of the Year. his 17th year teaching art, and work with the Explorer Program for posted. She has been gaining At their annual award ceremony, in the classroom he strives to the Chili Fire Department. subscribers after taking a long the department acknowledges always give the students new KATHRYN ZUROSKI ’97 hiatus. You can fnd the shows at the frefghter, offcer, and civilian and challenging experiences. The no longer teaches math in the YouTube.com/CallTimeAtlanta. who has provided outstanding charity he operates provides Rochester City School system, but ELIZABETH (DELLES) service to the department and lodging to families in need who is now the Special Education School FLANAGAN ’87 Elizabeth’s the community they serve. must travel for their children’s Improvement Specialist within the daughter, Ivy was married in Tyler, Donna was given this honor for medical needs. Aaron and his wife district. her amazing dedication to their founded this after their son went Texas in October 2015. Many JULIA CLINE ’98 Julia left her paramedic education program. through a few serious surgeries AC community members were in position as director of engineering She has been able to take her and they had to travel to Boston attendance including the parents at a high tech company in Sunnyvale experiences as a frefghter, to get him the best doctor. The of the bride: Hugh Babineau and joined a start-up in San paramedic, physician assistant, and charity is The Kolbe Fund. (www. ’85 and Elizabeth Flanagan Francisco. ’87, aunt and uncles: Sarah educator to build a program that thekolbefund.org). Aaron’s kids are Bohrer ’80, Steve Bohrer creates compassionate, competent ages 7, 8 and 9 and they love to go BEN HEFFRON ’98 This ’82, and Guy Babineau ’82, and capable paramedics who are camping, sailing, and travel. Aaron summer, Ben received a Master of and grandmother: Charmaine the next generation of the fre and his wife have a lot of family in Science degree in Cybersecurity Babineau (former teacher and department. Rochester still and come home to from the University of Maryland. administrator). VERA (NOYES) GILES ’89 visit regularly. ROBERT SPARKS ’99 is a STACEY ROMEO ’87 is running lives with her husband, Aaron, CHRIS MILTSCH ’93 and wife graduate student at the University for Monroe County Family Court and son Sammy, near Seattle, Kara have been living in York, PA for of Illinois working on a Ph.D. in Judge. Stacey has been a practicing Washington. She’s recently over fve years. They love the area biochemistry. attorney in Rochester for almost completed the frst draft of a and now have four out of their fve 20 years, mostly representing memoir about the ordinary and children in school. While Kara takes children and parents in family law extraordinary anxieties of raising care of the household and works matters. For the past fve years, she has served as confdential law clerk

21 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 RUSSEL CHOU ’01 After BEN AMBLER ’04 is a full time ESTHER REYNOLDS ’06 left living and working in NYC as a high school history teacher at her food related position in NYC social worker for almost ten years, Dwight-Englewood School in NYC and moved to Boston to intern Russell and his wife are moving where his AC classmate, Alaina with America’s Test Kitchen. Lynn also teaches history. to Vermont where he wiill be a JESSICA ATKIN ’07 had a non school social worker. SCOTT HERTRICK ’04 and fction piece published: “Home PAUL FILERI ’02 received his wife, Olivia, are moving to Tokyo is Where:” http://therumpus. his Ph.D. in flm studies from NY to teach at the international ASIJ net/2016/02/home-is-where/ (American School in Japan). He will Chip Bradford ’99 University in May. His research topic TIM BOUCHER ’07 is still in teach English and she will teach art. centered on French colonial control. law school and has one more year CHIP BRADFORD ’99 has YOSHI FUJITA ’02 continues SAM GATLEY ’04 is working to go for a dual degree, receiving relocated to Irvine, CA for his to teach at The Rivers School in with 4 students on a summer both a JD from Syracuse University job at Curse.com where he is Weston, MA. His busy schedule internship at the New Jersey College of Law and a Master’s working on VOIP (voice over includes teaching classes in Institute of Technology. He serves Degree in Public Administration internet protocol) for gamers. physics, engineering and robotics. as an Associate Research Technician from the Maxwell School of Chip recently visited Alaska with Recently, he and a friend hiked the for a physics lab. He works with Citizenship and Public Affairs at his mom and visited the Alaska Pacifc Crest Trail. 3D printers to create rapid Syracuse University. He is also the Wildlife Conservation Center, prototypes and help out with all incoming Editor-in-Chief for the REBECCCA MORSE ’02 Denali National Park, and went for of the research projects going on Syracuse Journal of International graduated in May from UC Berkeley a sled dog ride! in the lab. He has been working in Law and Commerce. Boalt Hall School of Law. She will this capacity for a few months now, ADAM CZERNIKOWSKI CIARAN BRENNAN ’07 still clerk for a Federal District judge in and fnds it extremely interesting ’00 recently moved to St. Louis, works for the Department of Houston for one year. and fun. In the long run he hopes MO, after spending 10 years in Homeland Security, but is now in MICHAEL MILAZZO ’02 to come back to Rochester, but for Chicago. He continues doing work Bellingham, WA. He works as a recently became the Assistant now the adventure in Newark is remotely for the Chicago Alliance mix of an intelligence agent and a District Director, U.S. Department working out well. to End Homelessness as a Data feld agent. Analyst, helping with the efforts of Labor Wages and Hours Division ALEXA GONZALEZ ’05 After to end veterans’ and chronic in the Albany, NY offce. graduating from North Carolina homelessness. He spends his free STEPHEN HILL ’03 has taken Veterinarian School, Alexa became time as a referee for women’s a new position in the School of a veterinarian at Park Veterinary roller derby—which has seen him Management at Nazareth College Hospital in Durham, N.C. offciating at two World Cups and as an Assistant Professor of JUNO SIMMONS ’05 moved four World Championships—and Organizational Behavior and Human to Austin, Texas and works for enjoys hanging out with his partner Resource Management. Additionally, Google. He is also the founder and Chelsea and their two dogs. Stephen co-published an article in CVO (Chief Visionary Offcer) of ABHI SOMASKANDA the International Journal of Aging & the non-proft organization Roots Ciaran Brennan ’07 ’00 This summer, Abhi became Human Development titled: “Career (Realizing our own Talents) which Infuences in Bridge Employment an Assistant Director of helps urban youth. Occasionally Ciaran assists boat Among Retired Police Offcers.” Undergraduate Admissions at RIT. STACEY STARKES ’05 is crews or other local police MATTHEW SPAULL ’01 was JOHN PAUL VAN DER a very happy third year dental departments’ maritime enforcement selected for the 2016 Rochester STRICH ’03 In May John student at Howard University, units. Since he’s been in Washington Film Festival for his flm, “If These received two diplomas from College of Dentistry. She will he enjoys a lot of hiking and Walls Could Talk,” a flm that Yale; an MBA from the School receive her license in 2018. boating. He also celebrates that he celebrates the determination, of Management and a Master’s is the most junior/youngest agent in of Forestry from the School of MARI FUJITA ’06 completed this position in the nation and holds talent, resiliency and creativity of a master’s degree in Acupuncture young men facing homelessness. Forestry and Environmental Studies. the record for quickest promotion He will continue to help manage and Oriental Medicine. She is now to this position with about two ROB RICHARDSON ’01 is Yale’s forest in the northeast of a proprietor of Beam Acupuncture and a half years in service when starting graduate work at SUNY Connecticut through next fall. in Seattle, WA. they picked him. Ciaran traces the Brockport Metro Center Campus. Afterwards, he would like to work CRAIG WAXMAN ’06 success of his progression all the GEOFF CLINE ’01 now fies a for one of a number of investment As a producer at CNN, Craig way back to about sixth grade Boeing 737 aircraft for United Air frms in the Boston area that invest is continually viewing news when he started learning Spanish in Lines out of Newark, NJ. in timber and/or agriculture. breaking events, such as the Ray Perez’s class. Allendale Spanish RNC in Cleveland and the DNC turned into a Bachelor’s in Spanish, JACQUELINE SAMUEL ’01 DANIEL SZABO ’04 is the in Philadelphia. Earlier he went turned into an expedited academy, is very busy caring for her two founder of You Mawo, a designer skydiving with the army parachute then into a promotion to one of young children and running her eye glass company in Germany. team and helped shoot a NASA the best jobs in law enforcement. two local businesses, The Snuggery, space launch. and buying and restoring rental properties.

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 22 RICKY MARRON ’08 After with children under 5 to see what headed to Raleigh, NC to enter a Award in Classical Languages and working in Nairobi, Kenya, Ricky has kind of knowledge they have doctorate program at NC State. Archaeology. She is also a University returned to work for a start-up in about mold growth on maize His feld is chemical engineering, of Rochester “Take 5” scholar in San Francisco. and groundnuts that they grow but his specifc research will creative writing. CAROLINE NATHAN ’08 and purchase, what their sorting investigate chemical conversions of AEDIN BRENNAN ’12 practices are for this grain, and woody biomass into products such is completing her masters Aedin’s college track and sport’s what the intrahousehold allocation as liquid fuel, plastics, and other degree at the Friedman School accomplishments are most of different qualities of grain is. The chemicals. of Nutrition Science and Policy impressive. She received 7 All main concern is whether caregivers at Tufts University, and has one LUCY COYLE ’10 works American Titles (including the are feeding contaminated grain to more semester left! Her focus in Washington, D.C. for CEB, National Championship), 25 children under 5, since it is linked is on low and middle income consulting in the area of conference championships, 6 to stunting. countries, specifcally linkages Learning and Development for outdoor and 4 indoor Denison between agriculture and nutrition. GABRIELA PALACIO ’08 Human Resources. College records, 3 conference awards, and the NCAC Scholarship This summer she has been to In May 2016, Gabi received MARISA PALACIO ’10 This Athlete Award. She was also Malawi and conducted research on her M.D. from Upstate Medical year, Marisa began a three-year awarded by the conference the title afatoxin (a metabolite produced University. She has taken a three graduate studies program at Tuft’s of Woman of the Year. In addition, by a mold that causes stunting, year residency in internal medicine Medical School to become a Aedin received the Denison College cancer, immunosuppression, and at Strong Hospital. physician’s assistant. Outstanding Research Award in other health problems) in maize DEREK CORBETT ’08 After DANIELLE VANDER HORST Biology and graduated cum laude. and groundnuts. Her research earning a Master’s of Science is looking at primary caregivers ’12 received the Joseph O’Connell degree at SUNY-ESF, Derek is Graduate School Endowment Fund

WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS

Christina Mitchell ’87’s wedding party in Washington, D.C.

CHRISTINA MITCHELL ’87 OWEN COYLE ’08 married married Lisa Manley on March Ellie Wilkinson in August, 2015 in 11th in Boston, MA. They hosted Camarillo, CA. It was a destination a beautiful celebration of marriage wedding for many of Owen’s AC on May 20th at the Hay Adams classmates, including ALEX TAIT Hotel in Washington, DC. It was ’08 who was the best man. Owen a rooftop party (“Top of the received a master’s degree in Hay”) with the White House Biological Oceanography from the and Washington Monument in University of Washington and he Katie Connor ’98 and Ned Gorges ’99 and the background on a gorgeous and his wife live in Seattle. spring evening. Carlos Carcia Rodriquez Cait McRea SANDY CASEY ’08 In mid-July, KATIE CONNOR ’98 After NED GORGES ’99 After Sandy married Jacob Castiglia at teaching English for many years working in San Francisco for Bristol Harbor Resort. in universities in Seoul, South many years, Ned has returned Korea, Katie married Carlos Garcia to Rochester and will marry his Rodriquez in Havana, Cuba and fancée Cait McRea in October. now they live in Syracuse.

23 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 BIRTHS SARAH (CHERRY) KATZ ’92 ROBYN (THOMPSON) OTT TED FORSYTH ’99 and wife, and her husband celebrated the ’97 has a baby daughter named Ali Fernaays, welcomed a baby birth of their daughter, Alden, in River, and the baby has already girl, Morgan. October 2015. traveled on several Oregon rivers. DEVON HOLCOMB ’00 and JULIE DESMARTEAU ’96 SARAH (PINKNEY) husband Brad welcomed a baby Lorelei, Julie’s frst daughter, now CASTRONOVA ’97 On girl, Catherine in September 2015. has a baby sister, Piper, to keep the December 23, 2015, Sarah gave BRIAN DUFORD ’01 now family busy. Piper was born early birth to daughter, Emma. has a second daughter, Georgia, this summer, so Julie was missed at CINDY (KEPPEL) TURNER who was born in June 2016. her 20th reunion at AC. Morgan Nobo ’05, ’98 and Harrison now have two CARLENE (MOWL) LINDSAY (ANDERSON) Christopher and Carolina sons; Pierce and baby brother STAHLNECKER ’01 and HARRIS ’96 In January Lindsay Jameson (Jamie) born in late March. her husband welcomed twin had a baby girl, Reagan, who now CAIT HOLSTON ’99 had a girls, Grace and Madeline, on MORGAN (SMITH) joins her sisters, Olivia and Sydney. baby daughter, Violet Catherine. April 1, 2016. NOBO ’05 and her husband The family recently moved from Christopher, welcomed Carolina Colorado to Alabama. DOROTHEA SOULE ’02 in February 2016. and her husband, Augusto RITA YANG ’96 and her Simoes Lopes, who live in Brazil, PETER FOX ’05 now has two husband, Nate Hendrie, had a celebrated the birth of their sons, Petey and little Cooper baby boy, born in mid-July. daughter, Valentina, in late July. Michael, who was born in mid-April. EMMA ZUROSKI ’02 lives in Auckland, New Zealand and ILANA (SHRIER) is working on her Ph.D. at the ROSENSON ’06 had a baby girl, University of Auckland. In April, she Charlotte, last winter. Ilana and her husband, Aaron plan to move to Cara Bucciarelli ’99, Nelson and her husband had a baby girl, Tel Aviv, Israel this year. Gerew ’99 and Thea Felicity Zuroski-Norman. VANI (RAO) DETJEN ’02 and ALAN WILSON ’08 and his wife, Ashley, had a baby boy, CARA BUCCIARELLI ’99 her husband had a baby girl whose Archer, born in the Fall of 2015. and NELSON GEREW ’99 name is Prentice. celebrated the birth of their ELIZABETH “BIZZ” Olivia McCrosson AMANDA SOULE ’04 and daughter, Thea, (often called “T”) her husband, Jared Buck, had a (MAHER) RAMOS ’08 and her in the Fall of 2015. baby girl in late March. Her name husband had a baby boy this spring, UMA (SUD) MCCROSSON is Charlotte, but will be called Malachi Jose. ’96 On January 15th, Uma gave Charlie Lou. birth to a daughter, Olivia, who joins her two older brothers.

Where in the world have you been with the Birches? The birch trees at Allendale Columbia School create a beautiful landscape over our 33-acre campus. “The Birches” as they are fondly named, have been here for hundreds of years and are even cared for by our resident tree doctor. Celebrate these iconic features by taking and submitting a photo of yourself beneath the birches wherever you are. We’ll share the photos on social media and in our next magazine issue! Email us at [email protected].

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 24 IN MEMORIAM William “Bill” Hale II ’39 Emmet Houston ’80 Joan Hart Bacall ’51 Jean Schaaf Meenan ’50 August 20, 2015 October 15, 2015 November 10, 2015 June, 2016 Peter R. Doggett ’73 Judy B. Berkes ’57 Shirley Kessler, David Cleary ’76 August 28, 2015 October 31, 2015 Former Faculty/Staff June 9, 2016 Barbara Swartout ’49 Alex Chun ’04 November 15, 2015 Mary Jeanne Mooney ’78 August 29, 2015 November 7, 2015 Ann Mulligan ’49 June 21, 2016 Dorothy “Toni” Jonathan Hunn ’11 April 23, 2016 Ernie “Terry” Whitbeck III ’58 McCambridge ’54 November 10, 2015 John Greppin ’55 July 3, 2016 August 29, 2015 May 3, 2016

SALLY N. MCGUCKEN EVELYN CORNISH ROLAND Sally passed away Evelyn, 98, formerly of Penfeld, peacefully on August NY, passed away peacefully 25, 2016 with her surrounded by family on April children by her side. 17, 2016, in New London, NH, The grace and strength following a stroke. She was she exhibited over the predeceased by her husband, past two years will be Duane, in January, 1996; and remembered by those daughter-in-law Susan D. Roland. who loved her. Evelyn is survived by her children: Sally was born May 16, Duane Jr. (Carol) Roland; Lynne 1941 to Thomas Munro (Bill) Hoyt; MJ (Ralph) Barber; and Mary Van Allen Beth (Phil) Hunter; David (Suzi) Nichols. She attended Roland; and Dr. Chieko (Dr. the Columbia School for Girls in Rochester and graduated Hiroshi) Inoue, Japan, who became part of the family as an exchange from Wheaton College, Boston, MA in 1962. She earned student at Penfeld High School; 13 grandchildren, 12 great- a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock grandchildren, and 2 step-grandchildren. College in 1963 and went on to teach frst grade at Baird Evelyn was born in Collegeville, PA, February 17, 1918, the daughter Road School in Penfeld, NY. of Dr. Samuel D. Cornish and Irene Sacks Cornish. She graduated In December 1963, Sally married John G. McGucken and from Ursinus College and attended Women’s Medical College of they spent 37 happy years together until John’s passing in Philadelphia before marrying Duane on July 3, 1943. In 1972 she 2001. Some of her proudest moments were spent raising earned her Masters of Library Science from Geneseo. Evelyn was her two children, Charlie and Mary. She made a career of the Librarian for the Columbia School for Girls and later Allendale volunteering and was active in numerous groups including Columbia School, responsible for merging the two schools’ libraries. Rochester Childfrst Network, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Evelyn had many artistic interests, including ceramics, silk-screening, Landmark Society, Rochester General Hospital Association knitting, sewing, embroidery and jewelry making. She was an avid and Alumni committees at Allendale Columbia School and investor who read her Wall Street Journal daily, researching and Wheaton College. discussing interesting stocks with her children and grandchildren. Sally was an avid gardener, a voracious reader, and an After learning to ski at 45, Evelyn skied until the age of 83 and enthusiastic traveler. She was a longstanding member played golf until 3 years ago. In her early 80s, Evelyn attended of the Chatterbox Club, Rochester Garden Club and aerobics classes and started pumping iron to keep up with her several local bridge groups. A loving mother and loyal children and grandchildren. She served on the Board of Directors of friend to many, one of her greatest joys was watching her the Collegeville Flag & Costume Company, and developed several grandchildren grow into caring, intelligent young adults. small companies while raising her family. Evelyn was a member of Third Presbyterian Church serving as a deacon, the Chestnut Twig, Sally is survived by her son, Charles G. (Jennifer) of and the Penfeld Country Club. Boston, MA and daughter, Mary (Matthew) Marshburn of Savannah, GA; grandchildren, Kelly and Patrick McGucken; Mom was the Light of our Family, and the Rock that held us all sister, Jane (Gerald) Clifford of Rochester, N.Y. and together. We will miss her and treasure the memories and the nephews Peter, William and Daniel Clifford. laughter we shared. Published in Rochester Democrat And Chronicle on May 1, 2016. Published in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle on August 26 -28, 2016.

25 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 ALUMNI PROFILE: DAVID CROFTON ’88 Personal experiences his AC teachers shared, teaching beyond the frame of a normal classroom. COOKIE MASTER BY: ARIANA GUO ’17

These delicious cookies and cakes all come What’s more, Mr. Crofton deeply appreciated the personal from the hands of David Crofton ’88, experiences teachers shared with him, which taught him things beyond the frame of a normal classroom. the owner of One Girl Cookies He recalled vividly Mr. Hunt’s presentation on cafes in Brooklyn, New York. rock and roll music, Mme. O’Donovan and Mr. Crofton did not choose to Mr. Fujita’s patient guidance, as well as open a bakery right away. After Mr. Harrison’s story about dignity and graduating with a history respect. When asked about David, degree, he found his passion Mr. Hunt recalls: “that [cooking] was for baking—frst as a retail a complete surprise to all of us for manager at a local bakery in David … but we fgured he would Virginia. Not long after, he be successful because he gets along started attending the evening so well with people.” These lessons classes at the Institute of affected him then and still affect him today and he applies them to his own Culinary Education in New York The Shenzhen skyline City. “Your day starts with four and business. eggs, and it ends with cake. I like that As the owner of two cafes in Brooklyn, he feeling,” he remarked. did not boast about the successes, rather, he Mr. Crofton remembers fondly his time at AC. listens to the advice of others and always strives to As a student, he was a member of the soccer and be a better boss, a better baker, and a better listener. basketball team. The high academic demands Mr. Crofton and his wife Dawn now run the at AC prepared him for his future life, cafes together. Their charming bakeries even though he did not realize it at that and cafes have attracted people from time. Being around a group of serious all around the city to come and satisfy students and teachers made him a themselves with different kinds of lover of learning. While at AC, he mouthwatering cookies and other refects that he may not have been delicacies. Their stories and recipes the very best student but, also not have been featured in publications the very worst, and wishes he had such as New York Times, Martha worked harder like many teachers Stewart Weddings and Real Simple. told him.

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 26 Annual Report of Philanthropy TOTAL GIVING 2015-2016 In celebration of our 125th anniversary, Allendale at AC Columbia wishes to thank and recognize our donors who contributed over $1,000 in combined giving to Allendale Columbia School from July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016, including gifts for the Annual Fund, the Impact Initiative Campaign for Allendale Columbia, Endowment, the Make Your Mark Gala, and other Capital and Restricted areas. Thank you to everyone in the Allendale Columbia community who helped make an impact – your generosity allows AC to lead the way regionally, nationally, and internationally. We hope you will join us this year as we advance our strategic plan to become a thriving, diverse community of learners who engage regionally and globally to create opportunities to design, imagine, learn, and make a positive impact.

Key: † Trustee | § Current and Past Faculty/Staff | ‡ Deceased

27 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Total Giving of $100,000+ Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tait II ’75 †

Total Giving of $50,000-$99,999 Mrs. Suzanne Gouvernet Rochester Area Community Foundation The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Total Giving of $25,000-$49,999 Anonymous † Charles Bradford ’99 † Ted and Claire Curtis ’47 Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc. William Hale ’39 Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation Deborah McLean † Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † United Way of Greater Rochester Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 †

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It all adds up to over $1M cash-in raised Thanks a million! for Allendale Columbia School in one year. Every gift makes an impact and we are grateful for gifts that funded the following important endeavors:

■ Annual Fund - includes Make Your Mark Gala! $637,475.00 ■ Summer LEAP $145,878.00 ■ Design and Innovation Lab $25,440.00 ■ S.T.E.M./S.T.R.E.A.M. Design and Innovation $2,500.00 ■ Unrestricted Impact Initiative Campaign $186,031.00 ■ Endowment $21,291.00 ■ Other Designated Gifts $27,927.00 $1,046,542.00

Total Giving of Total Giving of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wilder ’53 $10,000-$24,999 $5,000-$9,999 Mr. Kevin Wilmot † Ashley Family Foundation Ajay Glass Co. Mr. Paul and Mrs. Tamera Wilmot Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ashley Audi of America Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Wilmot Ms. Lisa Campbell ’83 † Thomas and Julie Bartlett † Mr. Kenneth Dens and Dixon Schwabl Total Giving of Ms. Mary Beth Conway † Ann Garrett $1,000-$4,999 Erwin and Gertrude Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Mrs. Brenda Acker Private Foundation Garrett, Jr. ’70 § Per Sven Adamson Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Eva R. Hoard Allyn’s Creek Foundation, Inc. Mr. Mick and Dr. Amy Gee § Doug Watson and Susan Hunter Anthony Funeral Chapel Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson †§ Mr. Rufus and Mrs. Amy Judson Mr. and Mrs. William Balderston, IV Xiaohua Ma Mr. Greg Kacprzynski and Bank of America Foundation Mrs. Karin Franz Kacprzynski The Morrell Family † Lisa Barnes § Mr. Norman and Paul Klingenstein Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Scott Blair ’81 Mrs. Arlene Leenhouts The Pike Company Mrs. Lynette ’66 and Mr. Jim Blake Mr. Ken McCurdy Drs. Greg and Colby Previte Daren and Tammy Blankenship Jennifer Newman Dr. Vito and Mrs. Laura Quatela Bonadio & Company, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Patterson Jr. The Rorapaugh Family Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lisa Brairton The Pulire Family Mrs. Doris and Mr. Jim Stathopoulos Dr. Robert and Mrs. Joan Brimlow Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Van Arsdale † Mrs. Elisabeth ’96 and Mr. Mauricio Riveros † Brown & Brown of Rochester NY Mr. John van der Stricht The Mark Siwiec Team of G. Lindsay Brown Mrs. Susan van der Stricht Nothnagle Realtors Mr. Steven and Mrs. Dean Brown Wilmorite Niko Smrekar and Cara Cardinale Mrs. Betsy ’64 and Mr. John Carver Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yates

29 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Mr. Jonathan Cass ’83 and Mr. Wayne and Mrs. Judy Holly Mrs. Linda ’87 and Ms. Jacquelyn Caridad Jane Hunter Walsh ’85 Mr. Michael Riordan § Central New York Community The Hwang Family Bridgette Rivers ’81 † Foundation David and Holly Jacobstein Rochester Female Charitable Society The Chapados Family Rebecca Johnson and Bill Destler Deborah Cook Routt City Blue Imaging Mr. Michael and Mrs. Ann King § Mr. Dan and Mrs. Mary Rundberg Mr. Donald R. Clark, Jr. ’59 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krenzer Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Schumacher ’55 Ms. Diana R. Clarkson ’99 † Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lander ’38 Shirley Shumway Cleary Family Fund Nancy Lee ’48 Mr. Skip ’82 and Mrs. Dawn Shumway Ms. Julia Cline ’98 and Richard A. Mahar ’54 Rambus Foundation and Silicon Valley Mr. Stephen Kelly Community Foundation Krosstrading Enterprises The Connolly Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silver ’42 James and Theresa Martin James and Marcia Goodwin Cutler ’82 Mrs. Wylie J. ’79 and Sally N. McGucken ’58 Ralph and Colleen Dandrea Mr. Stuart P. Small § James McKenna II † The Davenport-Hatch The Smoker Family Mrs. Amy C. ’82 and Foundation, Inc. Mr. Bill and Mrs. Kimm Stathopoulos Mr. John Mealey § Xiaoyu Deng and Yanling Ma Ms. Diana Stewart The Mitchell Family Ms. Lauren Dixon and Will Sugarman Mr. Michael Schwabl Moreland’s Lawn and Landscaping Mr. Alexander Tait C. Kieran Draper † Morgan Stanley Foundation Ms. Margaret Tait Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dubnik Dr. Margueritte Murphy and Dr. Brian Cooper Miss Joan Twaddle § Ethan Maya Development Corp The Murray Family United Technologies The Eye Care Center The Nancy and Richard Dorschel Mr. Erik and Mrs. Judy von Bucher Mr. Michael and Mrs. Noreen Falcone Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. Ernest ’58 ‡ and Mr. Bruce Ferguson Dr. and Mrs. Colleen Natarajan Mrs. Marie ’59 Whitbeck III Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. Thaddeus ’53 and Mr. James A. Wilmot Forever Financial Advisors, LLC Mrs. Sherley ’57 Newell III Mrs. Loretta C. Wilmot Mr. Hugh Fuller and Kameko Nichols Mr. Thomas Wilmot Jr. Ms. Dawn Williams-Fuller Nixon Peabody LLP Mr. Scott Turner and Mr. Frank and Mrs. Joan Fulreader Nocon & Associates Ms. Mary Worboys-Turner Mr. Mario Garibotti, DDS Mr. David and Mrs. Mary Peirce Jeff and Jill Wynn † GMRI, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Pinkney Li Zhang and Min Xu Mr. Adam Goldfeder ’89 § Mr. Steve and Mrs. Kate Polozie Ms. Louise Yamada ’61 Peter Gregory ’03 † Progressive Insurance Foundation Xin Yao Mr. Frank Grosso Q the Medical Spa at Lindsay House Jianhong Yu Ms. Dodie Gumaer Quatela Lynch Intellectual Property Yum and Yuk Books Harter Secrest & Emery, LLP Dr. John and Dr. Ruth Anne Queenan Melissa and Tom Zell Mrs. Susan Chandler Hill The Queenan Foundation

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The following list includes all annual gifts to ACTogether, the fund for Allendale Columbia School, given from July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016. Your support of the annual fund makes it possible for us to offer the AC experience to hundreds of

ALLENDALE COLUMBIA students from around the region and around the world who may not otherwise TOGETHER have the opportunity to thrive and learn here. Your gift also funds research, professional development, athletics, and much more!

Cornerstone Society Mrs. Elisabeth ’96 and Ralph and Colleen Dandrea Nancy Lee ’48 Mr. Mauricio Riveros † $10,000 and above The Davenport–Hatch Xiaohua Ma Niko Smrekar and Cara Cardinale Foundation, Inc. Richard A. Mahar ’54 Anonymous † The Mark Siwiec Team of Mr. Xiaoyu Deng and Krosstrading Enterprises Mr. Kenneth Dens and Nothnagle Realtors Mrs. Yanling Ma Ms. Mary Beth Conway † James and Theresa Martin Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 † Ms. Lauren Dixon and Erwin and Gertrude Davenport Mr. Ken McCurdy Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wilder ’53 Mr. Michael Schwabl Private Foundation Sally N. McGucken ’58 Wilmorite C. Kieran Draper † William Hale ’39 Mr. Paul and Mrs. Tamera Wilmot Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson † § Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Wilmot This is the impact of extraordinary participation! The Morrell Family † Since we are counting participation across all constituents, donors and their Drs. Greg and Colby Previte gifts may fall into multiple groups. Dr. Vito and Mrs. Laura Quatela Head of School’s Circle $1,000-$4,999 Rochester Area Community Alumni Foundation Mrs. Brenda Acker Past Parents $241,938.32 The Rorapaugh Family Per Sven Adamson $233,089.67 Mrs. Doris and Allyn’s Creek Foundation, Inc. Mr. Jim Stathopoulos Anthony Funeral Chapel Board Members Mr. and Current Parents Mr. and Mrs. William $163,564.69 Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † Balderston, IV $262,426.82 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tait II ’75 † Bank of America Foundation Former The Pike Company Lisa Barnes § Board Members United Way of Greater Rochester Mrs. Lynette ’66 and $140,765.00 Current Faculty & Staff Wilmorite Mr. Jim Blake Current Grandparents $13,070.02 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yates Daren and Tammy Blankenship $50,278.78 Former Faculty & Staff Bonadio & Company, LLP $37,929.78 Allendale Columbia Mr. Michael and Mrs. Lisa Brairton Founders Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dubnik James McKenna II † $5,000-$9,999 Dr. Robert and Mrs. Joan Brimlow The Eye Care Center Mrs. Amy C. ’82 and Brown & Brown of Rochester, NY Ajay Glass Co. Mr. Michael and Mr. John Mealey § Audi of America G. Lindsay Brown Mrs. Noreen Falcone The Mitchell Family Thomas and Julie Bartlett † Mrs. Lisa ’83 and Mr. Bruce Ferguson Moreland’s Lawn and Mr. Paul Campbell † Charles Bradford ’99 † Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Landscaping Mrs. Betsy ’64 and Dixon Schwabl Forever Financial Advisors, LLC Dr. Margueritte Murphy and Mr. John Carver Dr. Brian Cooper Ann Garrett Mr. Frank and Mrs. Joan Fulreader Mr. Jonathan Cass ’83 and The Murray Family Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Ms. Jacquelyn Caridad Mr. Mario Garibotti, DDS The Nancy and Richard Dorschel Garrett, Jr. ’70 § Mr. Mick and Dr. Amy Gee § Central New York Community Family Foundation, Inc. Eva R. Hoard Foundation GMRI, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Colleen Natarajan Doug Watson and Susan Hunter The Chapados Family Mr. Adam Goldfeder ’89 § Mr. Rufus and Mrs. Amy Judson Mr. Thaddeus ’53 and City Blue Imaging Ms. Dodie Gumaer Mrs. Sherley ’57 Newell III Mr. Greg Kacprzynski and Mr. Donald R. Clark Jr. ’59 Harter Secrest & Emery, LLP Mrs. Karin Franz Kacprzynski Kameko Nichols Ms. Diana R. Clarkson ’99 † Mrs. Susan Chandler Hill Nixon Peabody LLP Mr. Norman and Cleary Family Fund Mrs. Arlene Leenhouts Mr. Wayne and Mrs. Judy Holly Mr. David and Mrs. Mary Peirce Ms. Julia Cline ’98 and Jane Hunter Walsh ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Pinkney Deborah McLean † Mr. Stephen Kelly The Hwang Family Mr. Steve and Mrs. Kate Polozie Jennifer Newman The Connolly Family David and Holly Jacobstein Progressive Insurance Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Patterson Jr. Ted and Claire Curtis ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krenzer Q the Medical Spa The Pulire Family James and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lander ’38 at Lindsay House Marcia Goodwin Cutler ’82 31 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Dr. John and Allendale Columbia Mr. Dan and Mr. Frank Grosso Dr. Ruth Anne Queenan Benefactors Mrs. Shannon Cunniffe Mr. Peter Gumaer The Queenan Foundation $500-$999 Don and Judy D’Ambrosio Ms. Lindsey Hegedorn and Mrs. Linda ’87 and Anonymous (3) Frederick Dann ’78 Mr. Dale Vance Mr. Michael Riordan § Gay and Sandy Abbey § Mr. Thomas and Ms. Shelby Hill ’08 § Bridgette Rivers ’81 † Mrs. LouAnne DaRin Ashley Family Foundation Ms. Rita V. Hoard ’88 and Deborah Cook Routt Mr. Thomas and Mr. Sukhvinder Sokhi Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ashley Mr. Dan and Mrs. Mary Rundberg Mrs. Ellen Dockum Mr. Chris Edwards and AZPAC-Match Program Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Mrs. Elizabeth Bynum Drake ’50 Ms. Tricia Hough Schumacher ’55 Mrs. Cynthia Beach-Smeltzer ’77 Mr. Michael and Mr. Joshua Hunn and and Mr. Matthew Smeltzer Shirley Shumway Mrs. Kristine Duran Ms. Meredith Taylor Rich Beattie ’86 Mr. Skip ’82 and Mrs. Tina and Mr. Frank Duver § James S. and Janis F. Gleason Mrs. Dawn Shumway Benevity Community Mr. Charlie and Mrs. Mary Eagle Charitable Fund Impact Fund Rambus Foundation and Dr. Kara Eastwood and Mrs. Nancy Kepes Jeton ’72 and Silicon Valley Community Bill Gray’s Inc. Dr. Daniel Grace Mr. Peter Jeton Foundation Mr. Spiro and Mrs. Eftihia Bourtis Grant Eiselen Mr. Donald and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Silver ’42 Brighton Securities Mrs. Janet Johnson

Technology As technology has evolved, we have seen it go from a novelty, to a tool, to a way of life. Over the last six years, our Middle School has gone one-to-one with iPads, and our Lower School has adopted a one-to-one program with Chromebooks. We’ve launched a new one-to-one technology learning environment in the Upper School and provided incoming 9th grade students MacBooks. Additionally, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders can apply for MacBook use if they do not have access to a computer at home. Over the next three years, we will move our entire Upper School to a one-to-one environment!

Mrs. Wylie J. ’79 and Broadstone Net Lease Walter Englander and Mr. Jason and Mrs. Joanna Kane Mr. Stuart P. Small § Mr. Christopher and Carole Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kitchen Mr. Bill and Mrs. Katerina Buscemi Mr. Sherman ’62 and Mr. James and Mrs. Kimm Stathopoulos Mrs. Marcia and Mr. David Buss Mrs. Anne ’64 Farnham Jr. Mrs. Cornelia Kolster § Miss Joan Twaddle § Bob and Beth Bysshe Mr. and Mrs. Pandush Filipi Mr. Mark and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Mr. Steven D. Carhart Flour City Bread Company Mrs. Jen MacPherson Van Arsdale † Mr. Don and Mr. and Mrs. David Franz Mrs. Deborah ’63 and Mrs. Susan van der Stricht Mrs. Brenda Chapman Mr. Hugh Fuller and Mr. Robert Maggs Mr. Ernest ’58 and Dr. Lloyd and Kay Chapman Ms. Dawn Williams-Fuller † Dr. Dan Marion & Associates Mrs. Marie ’59 Whitbeck III ‡ Charitable Foundation Susan Golemb Garrett ’57 Dr. Joseph Marron and Mr. James A. Wilmot Dr. and Mrs. Dmitry Chuprun Jane Martin Ghazarossian Ms. Rebecca Kendall Mr. Kevin Wilmot † Dr. James and Mrs. Melissa Clark Mrs. Vera ’89 and Mr. Aaron Giles Warren Marsland ’54 § Mrs. Loretta C. Wilmot William ’77 and Alice Clark Mr. James ’51 and Nancy and Joe McAfee Mr. Thomas Wilmot Jr. Mr. Dan and Mrs. Mary Clifford Mrs. Janis Gleason McConville, Considine, Cooman, & Morin PC Mr. Scott Turner and The Combe Family Mrs. Diane Curtis Goodman ’74 Ms. Mary Worboys-Turner Annie McQuilken and Comella Orthodontics, PLLC Jean M. Gordon Jeff and Jill Wynn † Gregory North Mr. Spencer J. Cook ’58 Mr. Edmond Gorges ’99 Mr. William and Mr. Li Zhang and Ms. Min Xu Peter Gregory ’03 † Ms. Ellen Coyne Mrs. Missy Mercier Ms. Louise Yamada ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Crofton ’55 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Greppin ’55 Melissa and Tom Zell

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Allendale Columbia Matthew and Mara Bowley Jane W. Kitchen Mr. Derek ’64 and Benefactors (continued) Mrs. Miranda McGrath ’71 and Emily N. LaBudde Mrs. Arlene Vanderlinde Mr. Ranlet ’53 and Mr. Ted Boylan Mr. John ’41 and Dr. Christine Waasdorp Hurtado Mrs. Elizabeth ’56 Miner Jr. Mr. Carlton and Mrs. Ramsay ’46 Lawless Mr. Robert D. Ward ’85 Mrs. and Mr. Willis Mitchell Mrs. Shonda Brock Stephen and Amy Leibeck Yi Wei and Yunyun Li The Mogauro Family Dr. Nancy Brown and Frank C. Lillich Mrs. Cathy and Mr. Craig Schmackpfeffer Mr. and Mrs. Griffen Owen Zach Lockhart ’05 Mr. William Westerfeld Ms. Natalie Campbell-Kircher ’80 Mr. Peter and Mrs. Margot Lutz Mrs. Pamela S. Wilkens White ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Keith Rachunok and Mr. Jim Kircher Mr. Adam ’97 and Mr. Andrew Wilkinson ’97 Grosvenor Richardson Ms. Alison Carling Mrs. Erin Marshall Mr. Cedric Williams Merrill Richardson ’88 Charles Clarkson Susan Heilbrunn Shapiro ’70 Mrs. Mary McGucken Mr. Jeremy and Laurie Johnston Colombo ’63 Marshburn ’87 Mrs. Melanie Wolk Paula Neely Sinclair Kevin and Suzanne Cooman Allison L. Marsland ’83 Zhouxi Ye Mr. Bob and Mrs. Kathleen Single Dr. Luke Cornelius Susan Jackson McAnulty Allendale Columbia Friends Mrs. Beverly ’59 and The Cotter-Adamo Family and The McEvoy Family $1- $249 Mr. Richard Smith The Cat Doctors Veterinary Dr. Steven Meyers and Mr. John and Mrs. Joanne Smith Hospital Anonymous (10) Dr. Barbara Weber Will Sugarman Katherine Cubeta ’65 Abbey’s Catering and Kiosk LLC Mr. Mark Miller § Mr. Robert Sykes Mrs. Amy DeBiase Lois Adamson-Shumanski Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Montello § Mr. Aaron Teichner The DeLuccio Family Mr. Enzo and Mrs. Janice Addamo The Monti Family Henry and Beverly Theuer § Gary and Debbie DiFrancesco Ms. Wendy Ahlheim Mr. and Mr. Craig Albright Salvatore and Marie Timpani Mr. Joseph Dioguardi Mrs. Thomas W. Morris ’61 Ms. Susan Alexander Karin Turturro and Jon Iuzzini Mr. Michael and Lauren and Sam Morse Mrs. Heather Donnelly Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Allen ’64 Mrs. Lorraine Van Meter-Cline Carol S. ’68 and Thomas J. Mullin and Dr. Douglas Cline § Ms. Sarah Donovan Mrs. Carlotta Ames New York Life Foundation Vanguard Charitable Robert and Annmarie Drago Dr. and Mrs. Courtney Harrison New ’98 Karyn and Joe Vella § The Du Family Justus “Jay” Anderson ’52 Mr. Matthew and Mrs. Barbara Andrews Mr. Erik and Mr. Brian Duford Mrs. Marisa Nicodemus Mrs. Judy von Bucher Mr. Adam and Kristy Duncan ’90 Nancy Northup ’77 Dr. Charles Weis ’40 Mrs. Jennifer Anolik Rick ’62 and Tina Eisenhart S. Gie Oey and Todd Caves Mr. Peter and Mrs. Kelly Weishaar Mr. Mark and Mr. William and Mr. Eric Osness and Mrs. Nancy Anthony Mr. Tim and Mrs. Shauna Welch Mrs. Elizabeth English § Ms. Myra Torres Applied Audio & Theatre Supply Leslie D. Wilson Mr. David Feinbloom ’80 Dr. Carlos Palacio Kelly Ardieta Nancy Wolcott ’63 Mr. Charles Fujita and Mr. McLean and Mrs. Jodi and Mr. Louis Atkin Xiaojia Zhang Ms. Dulcy Lecour § Mrs. Evelyn Quinn Mr. John and Mrs. Mary Atwater Patricia Yuan Zuroski § The Garrett Company Abby and Josh Reinhard Julian Atwater Mrs. Diane Nixon Garstka Marion Swett Robinson Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Atwater ’76 Blue and White Circle Genesee Valley Equine Brian Rodwin ’83 Clinic, LLC Mrs. Nancy Atwood ’92 and $250-$499 Mr. Michael Ross and Mr. Daniel and Mr. Kevin Stone Anonymous (2) Ms. Emma Forbes-Jones Mrs. Victoria Goldstein Mr. A.E. Ted Aub and Ms. Miki Ahl Mr. Stevan ’62 and Ms. Phillia Yi Mrs. Deborah Yates Gormly Mrs. Mary L. Sayre Ms. Cielene Glavin Aleksejus Ms. Christine Avila-Smith Mr. John and Mrs. Amy Gorsline Ms. Mia Schnabel Bell Mrs. Katharine Alling Mr. Brandon Avila ’12 Mrs. Suzanne Gouvernet Mrs. Isabel and Mrs. Nancy Atwood Mr. Jim and Mrs. Shane Grant Dr. Michael Schneider Mrs. Joan Bacall Ray and Charmaine Babineau § Dr. Scott and Mrs. Kellie Grasman Patricia and Ronald Service Jonathan and Shelley Bagg Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Bagg ’62 Hegedorn’s, Inc. Mrs. Lucia ’65 and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Balderston ’76 The Bains Family Mr. Blake and Mr. William Shaw ’63 Ms. Kymberlaine Elise Banks Ruth Connor Baltzer ’57 Mrs. Lauren Henderson Mr. Dennis and Mrs. Helen ’50 and Mrs. Laura ’72 and Mr. James and Mrs. Kristine Smoker Mr. Paul Baumgartner Mr. Charles Barker Mrs. Sharon Herbst Martha Staniford Dan Beach Mr. Christopher and Dr. Stephen ’03 and Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin G. Mr. Donald and Mrs. Shannon Baudo § Mrs. Caroline ’06 Hill † Thomas III Mrs. Regina Becker Brad and Martha Bjorklund § Mrs. Rosemary Hodges Sally Damon Turner ’66 Sandra Goldberg Berbeco-Coen Ms. Deborah Blake Independent Charities of America Mr. Matt Vahue John and Tami Bilinski Dr. Kirk and Mrs. Colleen Bodary Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ingle, Jr. Jane and Bob Van Alstyne Mr. James ’71 and Mr. Edward and Mr. Barry and Mrs. Linda Jones Devon and Lisa Van Vechten Mrs. Elizabeth Bishop ’79 Mrs. Peggy Boucher Dr. Nicholas and Mrs. Penny Karis Dr. Vincent and Mrs. Melissa Bissonette § 33 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Te Arts Mr. Steve Bohrer ’82 Mr. Mark Cowdery Jr. ’80 Pete Bolane Mrs. Lisa and Mr. John Crandall § AC students have the opportunity to delve into Mr. David and Mrs. Lynn Bono Mr. Gregory and performing arts, graphic design, digital arts, and a Mr. Douglas Boss Mrs. Joanna Crego variety of musical offerings. Each year students in each Mr. Teddy Bradford Michael Crews ’94 Division participate in musicals, plays, band concerts, Ms. Aedin Brennan ’12 Tammy Crowe § and even work behind the scenes with stagecraft and Mrs. Elizabeth Arthur Cruz § audio production. Student artwork is known to be Epstein Brenner ’81 The Cylke-Kowalchuk Family on display in local galleries and our literary magazine, Mrs. Nancy S. Brewster Ms. Pam D’Angelo and Mr. Willam Bills § MUSE has placed frst in a national recognition for John Brimlow Mrs. Diane and Mr. George E. Dahl school magazines, 33 years in a row. Mr. Michael Broberg § Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. M. Lowell Broberg Mrs. Charles B. Daly II ’62 Ms. Morgan Broberg Ms. Jamia Danzy “I have learned that Lindsey Brown § Dr. Claude and Mrs. Ginny David failure, rather than a Ms. Nita Brown Helen Shaw Davis Ms. Angela Burch § Ms. Jennifer DeBiase pitfall, can be a catalyst for Mrs. Heidi Burke-Boden Ms. Mary DeMocker ’80 and Mr. Arthur Peck The Burke Family § opportunity and change.” Meghan Dens ’12 Leslie J. Burlingame Lisa Barnes Ryan Conway Dens ’15 Mr. Gilbert and Mrs. Teresa Bussey Mrs. Stephanie DePaul-Pragel and Mr. Dennis Pragel § Mr. Michael Byrne and Ms. Marie Hathaway Noelle Destries Mr. and Mrs. Cansler Mr. Jason and Mrs. Jessica DeWitt Karen Capizzi-Gooding and Mrs. Patricia A. Dibella ’60 Steve Gooding Ms. Natasha Dicks Caitlin Cardinale Ms. Courtney Dixon § Mrs. Carol Keegan Carrizosa Ms. Irene Dombeck Mr. Gregory and Rob Doran § Mrs. Doreen Castellano Justin P. Doyle Mrs. Caroline Centner- Mrs. Erin Eder § Conlon ’73 and Mr. David and Mr. William Conlon Mrs. Rebecca Edwards Karen Chandler Mrs. Sharon and R. Elliot Cherne, Jr. ’55 Mr. Scott Ellmaker § Christine Cherry ’98 Mr. Robert and Mrs. Tonya Erdle Jane (Randie Maria Ernest ’59 Jackson) Chiavelli ’75 Mr. Michael and Ms. Jori Cincotta Mrs. Michelle Faulkner Cassandra Claboine Therese Fetter Mrs. Catherine and Mr. Phillip Fileri ’02 and Mr. John Clapp Ms. Nattha Chutinthranond Mr. Harry Clark ’54 and Ann E. Forbes Mrs. Rhett Thurman Julia Foulkes Mrs. Julie and Mr. John Cleland Mr. Chris Fox and Mr. Todd Clickner Mrs. Karen Bentley Ms. Trina Clickner ’75 The Frassetto Family Geoffrey Cline ’01 Mr. Vince and Michael and Jeannie Clinton § Mrs. Margaret Frassetto Gail M. Clough Mr. Murray and Dottie Coakley Mrs. Sharlene Freeman Mr. and Mrs. James Coffey Mr. and Mrs. John E. Frenett Mr. Richard and The Galban Family Mrs. Beverly Comstock Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Gallo ’01 Mrs. Rose and Mr. Robert Cooper Ms. Gerda Gallop-Goodman ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Costanzo § Katherine S. Garrett

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Allendale Columbia Friends Ms. Brooke Harter-Wheeler ’88 Mr. Richard Katz Mr. Charles ’85 and (continued) and Mr. Michael Wheeler § Mr. Lars and Mrs. Liana Kirvan Mrs. Jennifer McGucken Mrs. Abby and Mr. Paul Gebel § Mr. and Mrs. Rodney S. Mr. Greg and Mrs. Ellen Kissell Mr. Rennie ’54 and Hatch, III ’78 Mrs. Sarah McQuilkin Genesee Valley Cemetery Service Mr. David and Mr. and Mrs. William George ’62 Mrs. Laura Hellaby Mrs. Susan Kitchen Ms. Ann Meehan Katie McLean Gerstner Mrs. Charles K. Hellebush § Mr. Matthew Klainer Mr. and Mrs. Brian Meehan § Mrs. Emily Gillette § Elaine and Jim Herlan Dr. Marek Kopacz Ms. Amanda Meldrum § Mr. Matthew and Rebecca Herlan Mrs. Donna and Mrs. Jeanne Lawless Mercier Mrs. Nicole Glavin § Mrs. Eleonore ’58 and Mr. James Kwiatkowski § Kristin Merriman § Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Gleason ’81 Mr. John Herman Marlowe B. Hagood Laiacona Mr. Nathaniel and Mr. John Gonzalez and The Hess Family Mrs. Katherine and Mrs. Erin Merritt § Ms. Shari Hegedorn Mr. Daniel Hewett Mr. Chad Lapa § Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Messina Mary K. Gooding Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Hickman ’63 Ms. Rachel Lauber and Microsoft Matching Gifts Program Rose C. Gooding ’09 Alan Hickok Mr. Matthew Ardizzone Mr. David and Judith E. Gordon Mrs. Whitney ’83 and David M. Law ’77 Mrs. Melissa Mihalyov Mrs. Adele Gorges Dr. Richard Hoffman Dr. Jeff Lawlis § Walter Millard ’56 and Sue Millard ’57 Mrs. Jane Swan Gorsline ’59 Ms. Stacy Htay and Ms. Marcia Layton Turner Mr. Win Naing Gail B. Minkin ’55 Mr. Philippe ’96 and Dr. Endong Li and Mrs. Shannah ’96 Gouvernet Mr. Ted Hunt § Mrs. Bailian Chen, Ph.D. Ms. Mary Mitchell § Mrs. Hugh Hunter ’58 Kathleen S. Lightholder Lori Montgomery §

Ginny Gray § Stanley M. Hunting Dr. Derek Linton and Mr. Andrew and Mr. and Katherine Hurley Ms. Kim Kopatz Linton Mrs. Carrie Morabito Mrs. Newton H. Green ’44 John and Sally Hutchens Mr. Charles S. Lippa Nancy Kearns Morris ’46 Ms. Christina Gregory ’07 Heather Hutton § Mr. and Mrs. Lisi Mrs. Catherine C. ’52 and Mr. Hugh Moulton Miss Ryan Grimes IBM International Foundation Mr. Michael Mahoney and Ms. Jane Wineberg Ms. Amy Mourhess Mr. Charles and Mr. Jeff and Mrs. Kate Ingraham Mrs. Carolyn Haines Dr. and Mrs. Richard Mains Brent Neeley § Intel Foundation Amy Pollack Hall ’90 Ms. Lisa M. Monaco Betsy G. Neisner ’71 Mrs. Deanna Interlicchia § Dr. M Renee Hanson ’68 Ms. Mindy Mangan ’81 Mrs. Melvin B. Neisner Raymond Istas § Mrs. Barbara Hargrave Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Martin Mr. Peter and Dr. Keith Jones § Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hargrave ’49 Mr. Robert and Mrs. Lillian Mrs. Jonatha Nilsson Pixels & Digits Solutions Inc. Mrs. Gloria and Greenberg Mazza ’58 Mrs. Joan Projansky Nordell ’45 Mr. and Mrs. John Judson ’60 Mr. Timothy Harrington Mrs. Deborah Harpending Richard and Susan Northrup § Mr. Karim Kangbeya Mr. John and McConnell ’64 and Mrs. Candace O’Connor and Mrs. Betsy Harrison § Mrs. Margaret ’59 and Mr. Geoffrey McConnell Mr. Robert Wiltenburg

35 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Giok Oey Mr. Richard and Mrs. Jessie and Mr. Alastair Smith Ms. Marie Vayo-Greenbaum and Mr. Bryan Pahl and Mrs. Barbara Rappaport The Smoker Family Mr. Mark Greenbaum § Dr. Jenniffer Herrera § Larry D. and Carol S. Rath Mrs. Carolyn Sollis Jocelyn Forsyth Vick Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Palmer ’57 Raytheon Dr. Eleanor Sparagana § Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. Mr. John M. and Mr. Richard T. Reddington ’55 Ms. Allison Stanton Mrs. Lois S. Palomaki § Mr. and Mrs. Zak Wagner ’98 John and Candice Reese § Mrs. Elsbeth and Ted Panczyszyn ’86 Ms. Jennifer Reisch and Mr. Paul Starzynski Ms. Jenna Wagoner Ms. Teresa Parsons § Mr. Jim Chapman Ms. Akira Stata ’08 Betsy Mitchell Wallon Robert and Gabrielle Peckham Dr. and Mrs. William Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stern ’63 Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Walter Remington ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Natale Pellegrino Mr. Craig and Mrs. Patty Stevens Mrs. Anne C. Weld Vincent A. Renzi, Jr. Jim and Karen Pembroke Elizabeth Stewart ’46 Mr. Walter H. Wells, Jr. ’66 Ms. Esther Reynolds Jessica M. Pembroke Mr. Barrett and Florence Wells Joan W. Pembroke Mr. Jason Reynolds Mrs. Marianne Sullivan Judith M. Wenner Dr. Gay Stebbins Pepper ’60 Lynda Wells Robeson Mrs. Jennifer Suri Ernie ’87 and MaryKay Whitbeck Mr. Ray Perez and Dr. and Mrs. R. Danforth Ross Mr. and Mrs. Allen Swan ’64 Shawn and Jenny Whiteside Ms. Rhonda Brown § Jocelyn Garlock Rowley ’53 Mrs. Jane F. Taylor Elizabeth Millard Whitman ’66 Mr. Bryan Perkins Dr. John Ruef Mr. Anthony and and Torrey Whitman Mr. Andrew and Mrs. Lee Perry Mr. Dave and Mrs. Lynn Ryder Mrs. Trisha Tepedino § Ms. Carol Wilkinson Mitchell and Mr. and Mrs. Scott Peters Ms. Patricia Sanderson Mrs. Georgiana ’47 and Mr. Stevan Mitchell § Mrs. Mamie Pezzuole Lissa Couch Seeberger ’82 Mr. John Thoman Lexi Williams

Global Experiences Trips to Senegal, Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica provide students with real-world, hands-on learning experiences and full cultural immersion. Donations allow us to subsidize the cost of these trips for students at 50%, creating accessibility and equal opportunity for all students regardless of fnancial ability. Participants on these trips deliver life-changing supplies, build homes and schools, perform important scientifc research, and meet lifelong friends!

Mrs. Fredrica Prior Phillips ’73 Mr. Robert and Ann Townson Mr. Marques Williams ’04 § Tony Phillips Mrs. Stephanie Sieffert Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Townson ’49 Stephanie Williford § The Pifer Family Mallory Semple Monica Trevett § Amy Freeman Winslow Mr. Michael and Mr. A. Morton Seymour III Kathryn Tsibulsky Sara Schumacher Wolff Mrs. Kimbra Pinkowski Ms. Shobha Sharma Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tsibulsky Ms. Deborah Wood Prof. Daven and Lisa Shearing § Bryn Tucker Sally Wadsworth Wood ’56 Dr. Danielle Presgraves Mrs. Patricia Allen Shellard Mrs. Shauna Tucker Zhe Wu Petie (Johnston) Radicchi ’66 Mr. Aaron Shepard and Hether ’59 and Sam Turner Ms. Jin Xiao and Mr. Piero Terio Ms. Rebeka Radna-Crasta § Ms. Natalia Britvikhina § Mr. and Mrs. John M. Turturro Robert and Karen Yax Mr. Andrew and Skillsoft Ms. Arlee Valentine Duffy Zornow ’79 Mrs. Erica Ragan § Patricia Sladden F. Dann Valenza ’77 Anne Trainor Ralph ’59 Anne Marie Smelzer Ms. Judith Van Alstyne ’88 § Mrs. Catherine ’74 and Carl Smith Mr. Richard Ranger Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Marta Smith

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Hype Booth Mr. Greg Kacprzynski and Mrs. Karin Franz Kacprzynski The Kitchen Pittsford Label 7 Eatery & Bar Gary Levy Photography Lex&Liv Footwear Livonia Smithery The Lodge at Woodcliff/Woodcliff Spa Lost Borough Brewing Company Lovin Cup Bistro & Brews M/Body Warren Marsland ’54 § Matt Wittmeyer Photography Nancy and Joe McAfee McArthur Chiropractic Mendon Pet Supply Midtown Athletic Club Mr. Chuck Monachino Mr. Robert Moore † § Dr. and Mrs. Colleen Natarajan Nazareth College Arts Center New York Wine & Culinary Center Oak Hill Country Club One L Salon Park West Hair Design and Spa Parkleigh Annual Fund Restricted Gifts Other Restricted Gifts Country Club of Rochester Mr. Bryan Perkins Cranberry Casuals Pati Piper TEDxAllendaleColumbiaSchool Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson †§ Del Monte Hotel Group Mr. Jamie and Erin Pittinaro § Canandaigua National Bank Rochester Area Community The DeLuccio Family Mr. Steve and Mrs. Kate Polozie Get-It-Straight Orthodontics, PC Foundation Dinosaur BBQ The Rabbit Room Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson † § Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † Mrs. Sharon and Mr. Scott Recognition Experts Dr. Vito and Mrs. Laura Quatela Ellmaker § United Technologies Root Catering Quatela Lynch Intellectual Flour City Bread Company Scratch Bakeshop Property Forsythe Jewelers Inc. Shade Tree Greetings, Inc. Linda K. Salpini Gifts In Kind Mr. Charles Fujita and Ms. Dulcy Shear Ego Salon and Spa Tri City Rentals A Different Point of View Lecour § Stokoe Farms Xin Yao An Eye For Detail Fulreader Tree and Landscape Stonehurst Brands LLC Jianhong Yu Bell Racquet Sports Inc. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Bill Gray’s Inc. Mrs. Diane Nixon Garstka Tantalo Photography Studio Costa Rica Immersion Trip Black & Blue Steak and Crab Genesee Valley Club Ted Collins Tree and Landscape Black Button Distilling Giddy Up Jumps, LLC Mr. Jeremy Abbott Trader Joe’s Black Horse Bistro Mr. Kevin ’80 and Mrs. Rachel Bloomfeld Rotary Club Monica Trevett § Breathe Yoga Glazer Honeoye Lake Rotary Foundation Tru Blu Self Storage Brighton Securities Peter Gregory ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Patterson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Van Reiki by Erica Byers HikYoga Charles Patterson ’16 Arsdale † Century Liquor and Wines Hope 4 Your Canine Mr. Skip ’82 and Mrs. Dawn Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Mr. Ed and Mrs. Lisa Chapman Hunt Hollow Ski Club Shumway Keith and Betsy Wilson † CMAC Huntington Meadow Stables The Connolly Family The Hwang Family

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In Honor of Nancy Lee ’48 by Jonathan Hunn ’11 by Mrs. Barbara Andrews Mr. Charles Fujita and Ms. Dulcy Lecour § Mrs. Shannon Baudo § by Mr. Joshua Hunn and Ms. Meredith Taylor Mrs. Katharine Alling Riley Jane Leibeck ’20 by Genesee Valley Cemetery Service Dr. and Mrs. William Manning Jackson by Owen ’08 and Lucy ’10 Coyle by Larry D. and Carol S. Rath Jane (Randie Jackson) Chiavelli ’75 Mrs. Katharine Alling Nora Murray ’27 by Joan Weis Jameson by Mrs. Lisa Crandall § by The Murray Family Mrs. Wylie J. ’79 and Mr. Stuart P. Small § Mr. Aaron Shepard and Ms. Natalia Dr. Charles Weis ’40 Britvikhina § Nicholas ’16 and Justin ’19 Peckham by Robert and Gabrielle Peckham Ms. Mary Ellen La Fleche § by Tammy Crowe § by Mrs. Laura Hellaby Mr. Aaron Shepard and Ms. Natalia Jessica Pembroke ’14 by Britvikhina § Joan W. Pembroke Al and Marie Mahar by Abby and Josh Reinhard Kelsey ’22 and Michael ’25 Pinkowski Richard A. Mahar ’54 Claire Curtis ’47 by by Mr. Michael and Mrs. Kimbra Pinkowski George Mahoney by Mrs. Barbara Andrews Mr. Jon L. Schumacher ’55 by Justin P. Doyle ’66 Ted ’47 and Claire ’47 Curtis by Dottie Coakley Nana Amma Mansa by Karyn and Joe Vella § Mr. Aaron Shepard § by Ms. Nita Brown Penny Duford by The Cotter-Adamo Family and The Cat Susan McCanne Marsland ’57 by Mr. Brian Duford Doctors Veterinary Hospital Allison L. Marsland ’83 Ms. Erin Eder § by Miss Nell Skillin by John McGucken ’53 by Ms. Rachel Lauber and Mr. Matthew Judith M. Wenner Per Sven Adamson ’85 Ardizzone Elijah ’24 and Isaiah ’26 Spokony by Mrs. Charles K. Hellebush § Mrs. Shari Ellmaker § by Mr. Richard and Mrs. Barbara Rappaport Madame Menendes § by Ms. Rachel Lauber and Mr. Matthew Mr. John Sullivan § by Deborah Cook Routt ’73 Ardizzone Mr. Barry and Mrs. Linda Jones Nicholas R. Milella § by Soren Eschenfelder ’28 by Robert Tait II ’75 † by Dan Beach ’54 Krosstrading Enterprises Mr. Alexander Tait Helen Monroe by The entire Faculty at AC by Ms. Margaret Tait Ms. Mindy Mangan Noelle Destries United Way of Greater Rochester Janice Northrup by Nicole ’19 and Michael ’25 Filipi by Mrs. Lorraine Van Meter-Cline § by Ms. Jennifer DeBiase Mr. and Mrs. Pandush Filipi Geoffrey Cline ’01 Mrs. Stephanie DePaul-Pragel and Mr. Dennis Pragel § Middy ’21 and Caitlin ’24 Vella by Anne F. Foulkes ’52 by Ms. Arlee Valentine Julia Foulkes Bob and Beth Bysshe Swan L. Oey ’83 by Shane ’24 and Bryn ’27 Whiteside by Mr. Mick Gee and the Faculty and Staff by S. Gie Oey ’82 and Todd Caves Mr. Li Zhang and Ms. Min Xu Shawn and Jenny Whiteside Evelyn Cornish Roland by Marcus ’24, Xander ’26, and Grace ’29 Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson † § Frassetto by In Memory of The Frassetto Family Chris Schnabel ’79 by Robert M. Adamson by Kathleen S. Lightholder Caroline ’22 and Claudia ’24 Goldie by Lois Adamson-Shumanski Patricia and Ronald Service Peter Schwartz by Martha C. Atwater ’82 by Dr. and Mrs. Justus “Jay” Anderson ’52 Mr. John Harrison § by Mr. John ’76 and Mrs. Mary Atwater Mr. Philippe ’96 and Mrs. Shannah ’96 Tad Stuber ’85 by Julian Atwater Gouvernet Kathleen S. Lightholder Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Atwater ’76 Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Walter Mr. Robert D. Ward ’85 Cleary Family Fund Barbara Swartout ’49 by Ella ’25 and Adelai ’28 Herberger by Mrs. Amy C. ’82 and Mr. John Mealey § Mrs. Rosemary Hodges Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson † § Barbara Solomon Coen ’64 by Mark von Bucher ’08 by Rebecca D. Herlan ’00 by Sandra (Goldberg) Berbeco-Coen Elaine and Jim Herlan Kathleen S. Lightholder Charles E. Donovan ’79 by Dr. Joseph Marron and Ms. Rebecca Kendall Dr. Keith Jones § by Ms. Sarah Donovan ’82 Mr. Don and Mrs. Brenda Chapman Jessica W. Warren ’47 by Ed Doyle ’04 by Dr. Lloyd and Kay Chapman Charitable Dr. Charles Weis ’40 Anonymous Foundation Anne S. Wells ’43 by Tucker Gosnell ’77 by Mrs. Ann King § by Mr. Walter H. Wells, Jr. ’66 Nancy Northup ’77 Ms. Natasha Dicks Carolyn Weston by William Hale ’39 by Mr. James Kolster § by Ms. Mindy Mangan ’81 Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson † § Ray and Charmaine Babineau § Gregory A. Zuroski § by Eric B. Hoard, Jr.’46 by Mrs. Donna Kwiatkowski § by Jeff and Deanna Mao § Eva R. Hoard Mr. Aaron Shepard and Ms. Natalia Patricia Yuan Zuroski § Britvikhina § Joe Holbrook by Dr. and Mrs. Justus “Jay” Anderson ’52

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 38 ANNUAL REPORT OF PHILANTHROPY AT AC Make Your Mark Gala The Make Your Mark Gala celebrated Allendale Columbia’s 125th year legacy in grand style. We gratefully thank everyone who helped exceed all expectations. Join us in thanking the people listed below who contributed sponsorships, advertisements, monetary gifts, and in-kind gifts to support Allendale Columbia School and the Make Your Mark Gala!

Make Your Mark Gala Visionary Sponsors ($10,000)

Make Your Mark Gala Jennifer Newman † Make Your Mark Gala Gifts Innovator Sponsors Nixon Peabody LLP Ms. Miki Ahl ($5,000+) The Eye Care Center Mrs. Carlotta Ames Ajay Glass Co. Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 † Mrs. Barbara Andrews Audi of America Keith and Betsy Wilson † Anthony Funeral Chapel Dixon Schwabl Mrs. Jodi and Mr. Louis Atkin Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Garrett, Jr. ’70 § Make Your Mark Table Sponsors Mr. and Mrs. William Balderston, IV Mr. Norman and Mrs. Arlene Leenhouts ($1,250) Bank of America Foundation The Mark Siwiec Team of Nothnagle Realtors Lisa Barnes § Mr. Christopher and Mrs. Shannon Baudo § The Pulire Family The Connolly Family Sandra (Goldberg) Berbeco-Coen Ralph and Colleen Dandrea Daren and Tammy Blankenship Make Your Mark Gala Krosstrading Enterprises Motivator Sponsors Mr. Spiro and Mrs. Eftihia Bourtis Mrs. Diane Curtis Goodman ’74 ($2,500-$4,999) Matthew and Mara Bowley Ms. Christina Gregory ’07 Thomas and Julie Bartlett † Charles Bradford ’99 † Ms. Dodie Gumaer Brown & Brown of Rochester NY Mrs. Nancy S. Brewster Mrs. Susan Chandler Hill Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Bob and Beth Bysshe Nancy Lee ’48 Q the Medical Spa at Lindsay House Mrs. Lisa ’83 and Mr. Paul Campbell † Mr. Bryan Perkins Dr. Vito and Mrs. Laura Quatela Mrs. Carol Keegan Carrizosa Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tait II ’75 † Mr. Jonathan Cass ’83 and Mrs. Susan van der Stricht Ms. Jacquelyn Caridad Make Your Mark Gala The Chapados Family Role Model Sponsors Make Your Mark Gala Advertisers Christine Cherry ’98 ($1,500) Applied Audio & Theatre Supply Dr. and Mrs. Dmitry Chuprun Allendale Columbia Alumni Board: Brighton Securities William ’77 & Alice Clark Charles Bradford ’99 †, Peter Gregory ’03 †, Broadstone Net Lease Dr. Stephen ’03 and Mrs. Caroline ’06 Hill †, Mr. Dan and Mrs. Mary Clifford Mrs. Marcia and Mr. David Buss Ms. Shelby Hill ’08 §, Bridgette Rivers ’81 † The Connolly Family William ’77 & Alice Clark Anthony Funeral Chapel Mrs. Rose and Mr. Robert Cooper Comella Orthodontics, PLLC Bill Gray’s Inc. Mr. Dan and Mrs. Shannon Cunniffe Flour City Bread Company Bonadio & Company, LLP James and Marcia Goodwin Cutler ’82 Genesee Valley Equine Clinic, LLC City Blue Imaging Mr. Thomas and Mrs. LouAnne DaRin Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dubnik Mr. Kenneth Dens and McConville, Considine, Cooman, & Morin PC Forever Financial Advisors, LLC Ms. Mary Beth Conway † Moreland’s Lawn and Landscaping Mr. Adam Goldfeder ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dubnik Mr. Matt Vahue Harter Secrest & Emery, LLP Dr. Kara Eastwood and Dr. Daniel Grace Dr. and Mrs. Colleen Natarajan Mr. Michael Ross and Ms. Emma Forbes-Jones Mr. Frank and Mrs. Joan Fulreader Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Garrett, Jr. ’70 §

39 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 Mrs. Diane Nixon Garstka CMAC Genesee Valley Cemetery Service The Connolly Family Mr. Edmond Gorges Cranberry Casuals Mrs. Adele Gorges Del Monte Hotel Group Mr. John and Mrs. Amy Gorsline The DeLuccio Family Mr. Philippe ’96 and Dinosaur BBQ Mrs. Shannah ’96 Gouvernet Mrs. Sharon and Mr. Scott Ellmaker § Mrs. Suzanne Gouvernet Flour City Bread Company Ginny Gray § Forsythe Jewelers Inc. Peter Gregory ’03 † Mr. Charles Fujita and Ms. Dulcy Lecour Mr. Peter Gumaer Fulreader Tree and Landscape Inc. Mrs. Barbara Hargrave Mrs. Diane Nixon Garstka Dr. Stephen ’03 and Mrs. Caroline ’06 Hill † Genesee Valley Club Mrs. Susan Chandler Hill Giddy Up Jumps, LLC Ms. Shelby Hill § Peter Gregory ’03 † David and Holly Jacobstein HikYoga Mr. Donald and Mrs. Janet Johnson Hope 4 Your Canine Mr. Rufus and Mrs. Amy Judson Hunt Hollow Ski Club Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson †§ Huntington Meadow Stables Mr. Jason and Mrs. Joanna Kane Hype Booth Dr. Nicholas and Mrs. Penny Karis The Kitchen Pittsford Jane W. Kitchen Label 7 Eatery & Bar Mr. James and Mrs. Cornelia Kolster Gary Levy Photography Stephen and Amy Leibeck Ann Townson Lex&Liv Footwear Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Martin Mr. Scott Turner and Ms. Mary Livonia Smithery Nancy and Joe McAfee Worboys-Turner The Lodge at Woodcliff/Woodcliff Spa The Mitchell Family Sally Damon Turner ’66 Lost Borough Brewing Company The Mogauro Family United Way of Greater Rochester Lovin Cup Bistro & Brews Mr. Andrew and Mrs. Carrie Morabito Ms. Lindsey Hegedorn and Mr. Dale Vance Matt Wittmeyer Photography Moreland’s Lawn and Landscaping Karyn and Joe Vella § McArthur Chiropractic The Morrell Family † Mr. Erik and Mrs. Judy von Bucher Mendon Pet Supply The Murray Family Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 † Midtown Athletic Club Dr. and Mrs. Colleen Natarajan Mr. Peter and Mrs. Kelly Weishaar Mr. Robert Moore † § Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 † Mr. Paul and Mrs. Tamera Wilmot Dr. and Mrs. Colleen Natarajan Mr. and Mrs. Griffen Owen Keith and Betsy Wilson † Nazareth College Arts Center Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Pinkney Leslie D. Wilson New York Wine & Culinary Center Drs. Greg and Colby Previte Nancy Wolcott ’63 Oak Hill Country Club Dr. Vito and Mrs. Laura Quatela Jeff and Jill Wynn † One L Salon Abby and Josh Reinhard Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yates Park West Hair Design and Spa Dr. and Mrs. William Remington ’61 Melissa and Tom Zell Parkleigh Grosvenor Richardson Make Your Mark Gala In-Kind Gifts Mr. Bryan Perkins Mrs. Linda ’87 and Mr. Michael Riordan The Rabbit Room A Different Point of View Mrs. Elisabeth ’96 and Mr. Mauricio Riveros † Recognition Experts Bell Racquet Sports Mr. Michael Ross and Ms. Emma Forbes-Jones Root Catering Bill Gray’s Inc. Deborah Cook Routt Scratch Bakeshop Black & Blue Steak and Crab Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Schumacher ’55 Shade Tree Greetings, Inc. Black Button Distilling Mrs. Lucia ’65 and Mr. William Shaw ’63 Shear Ego Salon and Spa Black Horse Bistro Mr. Skip ’82 and Mrs. Dawn Shumway Stokoe Farms Breathe Yoga Mrs. Jessie and Mr. Alastair Smith Tampa Bay Buccaneers Brighton Securities Niko Smrekar and Cara Cardinale Tantalo Photography Studio Reiki by Erica Byers Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † Ted Collins Tree and Landscape Century Liquor and Wines Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tait II ’75 † Trader Joe’s Mr. Ed and Mrs. Lisa Chapman Tru Blu Self Storage

www.AllendAleColumbiA.org 40 ANNUAL REPORT OF PHILANTHROPY AT AC Impact Initiative Campaign for Allendale Columbia As we celebrate the legacy of our 125-year tradition of excellence, it is abundantly clear that the Allendale School, the Columbia School, and Allendale Columbia School have all beneftted from incredible generosity of individuals and organizations through the years. The list below recognizes donors for their early and remarkable support of the Impact Initiative. We wish to recognize these donors for their combined gifts and pledges since the start of the Design & Innovation Lab through June 30, 2016. Early Impact Initiative gifts recognized here include unrestricted campaign gifts beyond the Annual Fund. The Impact Initiative is a comprehensive campaign intended to fund the highest priorities of the school as we launch AC forward. Please contact Karyn Vella at [email protected] for more information. ACHighlight2 AC in the middle of it all $100,000 - $499,999 Mr. John van der Stricht Mr. James and Mrs. Romy Barbato Anonymous Mrs. Susan van der Stricht Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Bates Ted and Claire Curtis ’47 van der Stricht Foundation Thomas and Mary Bonfglio Elizabeth Wesson Judson ’64 † § Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 † Dr. Margaret Lindsey Bob ’75 and Amy Tait † Tony Phillips $5,000 - $9,999 United Way of Greater Rochester Will Sugarman Ms. Xiaohua Ma Vista Teach Instructional Services $50,000 - $99,999 Mr. Ken McCurdy Mrs. Suzanne Gouvernet Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yates $1 - $499 Greater Rochester Summer Learning Patricia Babcock § Association Inc. $1,000 - $4,999 Lindsey Brown § Rochester Area Community Foundation Anonymous Donna Chaback § The Wegman Family Charitable Mr. Craig Albright Dr. James and Mrs. Melissa Clark Foundation, Inc. Thomas R. Anderson Michael and Jeannie Clinton § Mr. and Mrs. Scott Blair ’81 Dr. Samantha Sterns Cole ’97 $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. Steven and Mrs. Dean Brown Mrs. Stephanie DePaul-Pragel and Anonymous † Ms. Diana R. Clarkson ’99 † Mr. Dennis Pragel § Charles Bradford ’99 † The Du Family Estate of Nancy Mangan The Davenport-Hatch Foundation, Inc. Ethan Maya Development Corp Gallina Development Corporation Erwin and Gertrude Davenport Private Mr. Hugh Fuller and Ms. Dawn Williams-Fuller Peter Gregory ’03 † Foundation Mr. Frank Grosso Dr. Stephen ’03 and Mrs. Caroline ’06 Hill † Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation Rebecca Johnson and Bill Destler Dr. Seshadri Jagannathan and Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Schumacher ’55 Mr. Michael and Mrs. Ann King § Dr. Sandhya Seshadri Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † James McKenna II † Mr. Jerome Joseph and Ms. Sharon Lauer Mrs. Joseph Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Brian Meehan § Dr. Jeff Lawlis § Dr. Joseph Marron and Ms. Rebecca Kendall $10,000 - $24,999 Morgan Stanley Foundation The Morrell Family † Ms. Tracey Miller Ashley Family Foundation Nocon & Associates Mr. Robert Moore † § Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ashley Rochester Female Charitable Society Ms. Amy Oliveri § Mr. Kenneth Dens and Mr. Richard and Mrs. Barbara Rappaport Ms. Mary Beth Conway † Mrs. Wylie J. ’79 and Mr. Stuart P. Small § Laura Reynolds-Gorsuch § Feinbloom Supporting Foundation The Smoker Family Bridgette Rivers ’81 † Mr. Mick and Dr. Amy Gee § Ms. Diana Stewart Brian Rodwin ’83 John F. Wegman Fund Mr. Erik and Mrs. Judy von Bucher Mrs. Yesenia Roman § Deborah McLean † Mrs. Yi Wei and Mr. Yunyun Li Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Melanie Rozwood Jennifer Newman † Mr. Kevin Wilmot † Faye Shea § Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Patterson Jr. Yum and Yuk Books Mrs. Sorrentino § Paul Klingenstein Family Foundation Mr. Li Zhang and Ms. Min Xu Ms. Yuk Suen Susanna Wong The Pike Company $500 - $999 Jeff and Jill Wynn Steve and Claire Van Arsdale † Anonymous Patricia Yuan Zuroski § Mr. and Mrs. William Balderston, IV 41 BEYOND THE BIRCHES FALL 2016 We are appreciative of the following donors Dr. Seshadri Jagannathan and Laura Reynolds-Gorsuch § who have supported these specifc initiatives. Mrs. Sandhya Seshadri Bridgette Rivers ’81 † Mrs. Wylie J. ’79 and Mr. Stuart P. Small § Design & Innovation Lab Rochester Area Community Foundation The Smoker Family Rochester Female Charitable Society Thomas R. Anderson Mrs. Sorrentino § Mrs. Anna and Mr. José Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. William Balderston, IV Ms. Diana Stewart Mrs. Yesenia Roman § Mr. James and Mrs. Romy Barbato Will Sugarman Faye Shea § Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Bates Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tait II ’75 † Mr. and Mrs. Charles Symington ’76 † Ms. Lisa Campbell ’83 † United Way of Greater Rochester United Way of Greater Rochester Donna Chaback § Vista Teach Instructional Services Mr. Erik and Mrs. Judy von Bucher Dr. James and Mrs. Melissa Clark Mr. Erik and Mrs. Judy von Bucher The Wegman Family Ms. Diana R. Clarkson ’99 † Yi Wei and Mr. Yunyun Li Charitable Foundation Inc. Michael and Jeannie Clinton § Keith and Betsy Wilson † Mrs. Joseph Wilson Dr. Samantha Sterns Cole ’97 Yuk Suen Susanna Wong Jeff and Jill Wynn † Ralph and Colleen Dandrea Li Zhang and Ms. Min Xu Yum and Yuk Books The Davenport-Hatch Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yates Patricia Yuan Zuroski § The Du Family Erwin and Gertrude Davenport Private Summer LEAP Endowment Foundation Mr. Craig Albright Alfred M. Wedd Revocable Trust ‡ Ethan Maya Development Corp Ashley Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Scott Blair ’81 Mr. Hugh Fuller and Ms. Dawn Williams-Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ashley Estate of Nancy Mangan ‡ Mr. Frank Grosso Patricia Babcock § Mr. Frank Grosso Dr. Stephen ’03 and Mrs. Caroline ’06 Hill † Lindsey Brown § Tom ’63 and Ebets ’64 Judson † § Mr. Jerome Joseph and Ms. Sharon Lauer Mr. Steven and Mrs. Dean Brown Morgan Stanley Foundation Dr. Jeff Lawlis § Mrs. Stephanie DePaul-Pragel and Rochester Area Community Foundation Dr. Margaret Lindsey Mr. Dennis Pragel § van der Stricht Foundation Dr. Joseph Marron and Ms. Rebecca Kendall Ethan Maya Development Corp Mr. John van der Stricht Mr. Ken McCurdy Feinbloom Supporting Foundation Mrs. Susan van der Stricht Mr. and Mrs. Brian Meehan § Mr. Hugh Fuller and Ms. Dawn Williams-Fuller Elizabeth A. Wehle ’90 † Jennifer Newman Gallina Development Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Patterson, Jr. Greater Rochester Summer Learning Campus and Facilities Paul Klingenstein Family Foundation Association Inc. Mr. Steve and Mrs. Kate Polozie The Pike Company John F. Wegman Fund Mr. Alexander Tait Mr. Richard and Mrs. Barbara Rappaport Rebecca Johnson and Bill Destler Ms. Margaret Tait Rochester Area Community Foundation Mr. Michael and Mrs. Ann King § United Way of Greater Rochester Brian Rodwin ’83 Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Melanie Rozwood Ms. Tracey Miller STEM Design, Innovation & Research Mr. and Mrs. Jon L. Schumacher ’55 Nocon & Associates Charles Bradford ’99 † Ms. Amy Oliveri §

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